Roman Historiography

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SEMINAR IIII: Sallust BC 11-16 Party Politics ch3

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• BC 11-16• What is is his point?• What are the buzz words?

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Challenges• Annual elections

• Different days• Special offices• Voters live far away•Polls in Rome

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– group voting system

•tribus – 35 tribes 4 urban 31 rural

» property owners– No new tribes added after 241– latifundia displacement– Social War

» Free birth rural tribesman» Divisions of original tribes scattered

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Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– populares v. optimates

•tribal assignments•censorship•eligible Italians•citizenship for Transpadanes

– tribuni aerarii

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Roman Electorate

• registration– urban tribes– rural tribes

» impoverished rural tribesmen» propertied men- senators, equites, tribuni aerarii

– tribal transfers» prosecutorial rewards» enlistment bonus» censorial revisions/punishments

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Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– freedmen– foreigners

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– middle class

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Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia

•tributa– chose lower magistrates– chief legislative body– each tribe voted as a unit

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata

•old military organization– met in Campus Martius

•elected consuls & praetors– Imperium

•tribal vote taken separately in 5 classes arranged in 193 centuries– according to property qualifications

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata cont.

•Property Qualifications– Class 1: ƒ 50,000 or more

» 70 centuries» 2 from each tribe» voted first» results announced before next class voted

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata cont.

•praerogativa

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Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– cuncta Italia

• Via Appia Alban Hills to Campania– 12 tribes

• Umbria– 9 tribes

• Cisalpine Gaul– 14 tribes– Caesar & his winter breaks

• municipia

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Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Elections

•In July after Ludi Apollinares

•comitia centuriata– consular/praetorian elections

•comitia tributa– curule aediles, quaestors, military tribunes

•comitia plebis– plebian aediles, tribunes

Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote

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• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Legislation

•comitia centuriata– consuls, praetors– censorial laws

•comitia tributa– tribunes, consuls, praetors – primary body

•periods

Party Politics Delivering the Vote

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• Campaign for Election and Legislation– office determined campaign strategy– tribules– vicinitas– curatores– divisores– tribuni aerarii– conficere tribus

Party Politics Delivering the Vote

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• Campaign for Election and Legislation– commendation– coitiones

• sectatores

– custodes– diribitores– rogatores

Party Politics Delivering the Vote

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• Campaign for Election and Legislation– comitia– rostra– tribunes– consuls– violence QuickTime™ and a

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