COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Horatii, Acta Diurna, Perduellio
5 Apr 2017
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2: speech in the theater, the theatre was athens" public sphere where social and political topics, often controversial, were presented to the audience. Ironically, the theatre was the only medium where women could speak somewhat freely but only as characters in a play. If so, what happened to parrh sia: factors that may have weakened athenians" enthusiasm for parrh sia. The rise and popularity of the sophists. Internal strife: the conspiracies of 411 and 404 bce. The council of the 400 (lasted 4 months) in 411. The dictatorship of the thirty (lasted 8 months) in 404. All through history the narrower the base of a dictatorship, the more dreadful is the terror it feels necessary to maintain itself in power. (stone, 1988. p. Valerii, aemelii, cornelii, fabii, horatii, claudii, julii who for four centuries gave to rome its generals, consuls, and magistrates. They formed the original senate with 300 members: the equites: these were businessmen.
