CLAS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aedile, Caligula, Gaius Gracchus
3 May 2016
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The late republic: 147-87 bce, the spoils of the empire. Taxation abolished in italy in 167 bce: financially stable enough to stop taxing all of italy. Provinces, exploitation: provinces: places of military activity. A new senatorial attitude: distributing public finance, people who benefit begin to exploit. Plantations: mass influx of slave labor. Elite and non-elite: a widening gap: crisis. 133 bce: tiberius gracchus: city of rome is congested, elected to magisterial position, tried to pass laws to lessen the load of rome"s most impoverished citizens, tribune of plebs. Could veto laws: wanted to wipe out debts of poor people, redistribute land to veterans and less fortunate, unpopular with senatorial elite, won second tribuneship in a rome. Usually not allowed more than one term in ten years. Some think he"s trying to be the new king of rome. 123 bce: gaius gracchus: afraid of italy city-states and land distribution. The senates consultum ultimum: popular politics.
