CLA 2103 Lecture 14: CLA 2103 - Socio-Economic and Cultural Patterns

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2103
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

These emerge in the middle republic and set the stage for the late republic. Equestrians were not born to statecrat; although, property required to be an equestrian was the same as for senatorial class. They developed, urbanized opportunisically, set up commercial ies with new places throughout mediterranean. They traded on behalf of senatorial patrons (lex claudia) They got so rich that they were sought by senatorial oligarchy (and some popular reformers) for the money. They were able to buy their way into statecrat. They oten voted with their wallets: ruin of peasant farmer, rich get richer and poor get poorer, gap between elite and poor widens, cause: the war which caused economic decline. Poliical: facional strife: populares vs. opimates, cause: the wars or the end of the wars resulted in economic decline. Cultural: massive inlux of hellenisic inluences: scipionic circle vs. cato the elder et al, cause: eastern wars with greeks.