CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Latin League, Aequi, Latifundium

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Penalty was death: it becomes known as the struggles of the order. Meaning the struggles of the plebs against the patricians. It takes them more than 200 years for them to finally get the same rights as the patricians: rome expanded mostly south into latvia and the latins weren"t too happy that romans were taking over. Latin cities come together to make the latin league to resist rome"s expansion. The first big clash between romans and latins is in 496 the battle of lake regillus * Both sides became weaker and 2 local peoples noticed that they were weaken: aequi and volsci both attack rome and the latins. Because of that rome and latin form an alliance of their own in 493: *important, treaty between rome and latins had the following conditions, internal peace, military cooperation against 3rd party aggressors. Each one helps defend the other if attacked: shared booty from military endeavors.