Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 27: Lecture 10 Term 2 - Roman Revolution.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

The desire of the italian allies to be granted roman citizenship: dealt with relatively quickly. If general not entirely loyal to state this can cause problems : minor policies or legislative initiatives of his own, but he was basically a fighter. Once jigurthan emergency over, marius faded from view for a while, then italian allies brought things to head tired of being treated arbitrarily, so a large group of them declared war on. The tribunes of the plebs were weakened to prevent another gaius gracchus. After there was a settling into uneasy peace war lords left and conquered elsewhere people still felt like there was a republic and that the law still meant something, but doomed to fail. Pompey and crassus enriched themselves hugely by doing this. Classics lecture 10 term 2: very successful military career (after sulla died and things went back to normal)