CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Upper Class, Pater Familias, De Re Publica

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2104
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Unit 7 birth of roman republic and struggle of. Orders: tradition: literary sources, livy, dionysius of halicarnassus, polybius (greek mid 2nd c. bce):universal history, cicero, de re publica, which has a section on the early constitution, fasti see above class 2 sources. From kingship to republic: livy"s version - after the rape of lucretia, there was a popular revolt, and two men, By mid 5th c. , 2 annually elected consuls replaced the kings, but we do not know who first replaced the kings-perhaps dictators, rex sacrorum. Inscriptions show that rome was not the only population getting rid of kings and electing collegial oligarchies: other italic societies were doing the same thing. in context of 5th crisis. Was it violent: archaeological evidence (burn layers via sacra, regia) suggests it was. Not motivated by anti-etruscan sentiment but rather anti-tyranny sentiment. Aristocracy could not tolerate tyrants-good or bad: romans gave tyrant its modern day bad connotation, romans hate kings from now on.