CLST 201 Study Guide - Arpino, Anatolia, Extortion

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 201
• Professor: Margaret Erskine

Document Summary

At all costs and by any means infront of their peers. Optimates (the best men) vs. populares (the men of the people) at the end of chapter 5. Optimates (conservative, established) controlled the administration of the state and the senate. Populares (ambitious politicans) they were drawn from a minority faction of the senate. They were political representaives of those segments of. Roman society unsatisfied with the existing status quo. They were leaders of the urban poor, military veterans, and rome"s italian allies. Most used reform adgenda to further their own political careers. This mirrored the much earlier struggle of the orders (pats vs. plebs) Major difference in this struggle, both were from the same senatorial mobility. Gaius marius (157-86bc)one of the leader of the populares. He was a new man (novus homo), who became consul in 107 bc and held office six more times. Jugrthine war- named after rome"s enemy jugurtha 112-105 bc.