HISB11H3 Lecture Notes - Publican, Praetor, The Decade
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Collegial power = against monarchy: voting assemblies, magistracies, senate. 4th cent: formative period: wars in italy: magistracies, end of the struggle of the order, new mixed elite. 3rd 2nd cent: senate"s supremacy: conquests few very wealthy, many poor optimates . Political powers of military commanders + power of the senate (optimates) Tiberius sempronius gracchus 133: tribune of the plebs. Rogatio sempronia: limited possession of the ager publicus, recovered land for the poor + inalienable, college of 3 members to implement the law (= recover land) Opposition of a tribune tribune deposed + law passed ask for a 2nd tribunate. Gaius sempronius gracchus 123: tribune of the plebs: amended rogatio sempronia, lex sempronia frumentaria. 40l/month of wealth for each roman citizen living in rome: laws in favor of the equestrian order (juries) Creation of the plebes frumentaria: marius (157-86 bc) Local elite (novus homo new man) Calls for volunteers: even poorest ones, persona promises of rewards.
