Classical Studies 1000 Lecture : February 28 Review.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

The senate life time membership, composed ofanyone who was in the cursus honorum. Don"t need to know dates, but know a general timeline of how rome came to power. Cassian treaty rome alternates leadership with other cities, but eventually falls to roman control. Pyrrhic victory you win, but all your men die, so basically losing. 1st punic war (264 241 bc) rome was losing, because they didn"t have a navy. They had anamazing lland force, but not navy. The romans built a navy using something called a raven . It had a beak that came down, to allow the roman soldiers to board enemy ships. Hannibal son of a cathaginian general, vowed to destroy rome. He planned to cross the alps with elepahnts and hit rome with a surprise attack. He wanted to turn rome"s allies against them. His plan didn"t work, because rome"s allies didn"t want to betray them.