CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Contubernium, Tablinum, Latin Literature
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Have econ and military functions, could be wealthy, middling, or poor. Patricians dominate the state, wealth, and the ager romanus. Plebs have no voice in state at this point. Series of concessions made by the patricians to the plebs advancement. Secessions of the plebs *come back to this slide for amendments* 450, las of the 12 tables: laws posted in the forum romanum. 367 - the consuls come back, and one of them must be a pleb! 340s curbed hist interest rates and lessened debt imprisonment and slavery. 3rd century, no more binary plebs and patricians: Plebs allowed to be priests, and opened up the cursus honorum political offices and. Novus homo first in family to reach consul. Families: nuclear, extending outward agnate = related thru patrilineal congnate = related thru matrilineal. Domus: household including slaves, servants, freedmen, extended family, the hosue itself, property.