CLST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Centuriate Assembly, Plebeian Council, Rex Sacrorum
14 Oct 2013
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Big tablets in rome list of consuls. Dated to 120 b. c: fasti triumphales. List of triumphs: fasti"s burned down and had to be recreated. Polybius: greek hostage, wrote history of rome primarily punic wars, very scientific. Early roman portraits to pyrrhus: dress. Very heavy and bulky designed to protect from cold: brutus. Does not recognize sons as they sided with superbus. Poplicola: one who devotes self to the people, consul in first year. Stone of satricum: latin is satricanus, stone dedicated to mars. Polybius: under 1st year of republic two things happened. Roman constitution at beginning of republic: sent delegates to athens to learn, principles are that magistrates are: Accountable: servius tullius creates comitia centuriata. Designed so that richest get most votes. Classes 2 through 4 get twenty votes each. Interrex: caretaker of state between consuls, arranged elections or recommended a dictator. Dictator: rex complete power, called magister populi, unaccountable, purple toga, reigned for 6 months.
