CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Municipium, Third Punic War, Second Punic War

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 101
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Patricians: only by birth, originates from the monarchy, according to the tradition a creation of romulus (created at the very beginning of monarchy), monopolization of all important priesthoods. Avoided intermarriages, could only marry patricians in ancient world, religious and political power were similar. Plebeians: may be the name related to the greek word for masses it was only in the 2nd century bc, had both councils from plebeian families. During the early republic excluded from religious colleges, magistracies, and senate, A major tactic in crises was secession en masse from rome. Weren"t generally poor people, there were rich plebeians. Wanted rights to be protected, wished to gain same rights patricians had, and were required to fight for those rights, periods of crises in rome, used secession en masse in. Rome, all the plebeians grouped together to form secession. Conquests: textbook is far more detailed, first lessons should be focused on slides. 264 bce considered date of conquest of italy.