On
line lectures: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/final_exam_lectures.htm
Struggle
of the Orders 499-287 BC
Lex Hortensia
of 287
Kurt
Raaflaub, Social
Struggles in Archaic Rome
Lex Hortensia
287 BC- all legislation passed by Popular or Plebeian
Assembly was binding on the State
whoever held office in
Rome = senatorial aristocracy
Tarquin the Proud
expelled in 510 BC
2
annually elected consuls (collegiality); Pontifex
Maximus
Mos maiorum – roman custom
imperium = lictors, fasces, augurs
Great
Secession on the Sacred Mount 499 BC
New
Assembly, Plebeian, Popular, Tribal Assembly
10
Plebeian Tribunes - annually elected civil liberties defenders -
Sacrosanctitas
New
curule offices
praetors
aediles
quaestors
SPQR senatus populusque romani-- dual polity
Centuriate or Military
Assembly/ Plebeian, or Popular Assembly
Centuriate Assembly,
needed to win elections, 97 centuries
18 centuries of
the Equites
80 centuries first
class
2nd–
4th classes 20 centuries each (80)
5th
classes = 30 centuries rarely voted
Proletarii 1 class
Smiths and
trumpeters 4 classes
Total 193
F.F. Abbott,
Roman Political Institutions; Th. Mommsen, Romische Staatsrecht; L. R. Taylor, Voting districts of the roman
republic
IMPORTANT STUDY
AID: F. F. Abbott, Roman Political
Institutions, pages 150-265, available on line at Google books: