CLST 201 Lecture : Wk2L2.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 201
• Professor: Prof.

Document Summary

Lex hortencia: laws passed by council of the plebs are binding to all citizens. Legislative body: tribal assembly merged two previous bodies; became the prime legislative body in rome. Could be called by a magistrate with imperium (consul or praetor) to elect quastors or curule aediles (1). It could also be used by plebs to elect tribune and pleb aediles, but only plebs could visit (2): comitia tributa. Elects quaestors and curule aediles: concilium plebs. The concilium plebis was a new, novel way to circumvent patrician authority, gives new power to plebs. All citizens belonged. (still prime elective body for senior magistrates (consuls, praetors, censors). By 287 bc, roman politics then had a double head of power: conservative element (magistrates and senate, democratic element (tribunes, concilium plebis). But patricians still had majority of upper magistries, so still oligarchy. Oligarchy would get increasingly fractioned, causing the fall of republic eventually. Passing legislation: consuls/praetors or tribune of plebs tribal assembly.