CLA2104 Lecture 9: The Republic 9 - Oct 7/15

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

Document Summary

Age of italian conquest: city state to mediterranean. Background: struggle of orders was contemporaneous with series of wars that rome fought with the other peoples of peninsular italy from the 5th to the 3rd centuries bce. Bce, rome controlled all of peninsular italy: these wars gave plebeians leverage to fight for more rights and prevented patricians and plebeians from going to civil war. Germanic tribes: 390 fought rome at the battle of alia river, a catastrophe for rome, according to annalistic tradition (livy): gauls under brennus sacked . Rome for help when in 343 samnites swarmed around. Capua: rome stepped in and routed out samnites. Campanians into alliance with rome in control, giving rome more strength. Sources: pro-roman spin: samnites provoked naples (greek) to attack roman possessions in. Campania: romans declared war on naples, samnites rushed in and set up garrison, rome was on offensive invading samnite territory during early years: 325-22.