CLAS 208 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - EPICS
29 Jan 2016
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After quiz, get caught up on the rest of the readings. 30 curiae (= 3 tribes x 10) = political + military structure of the state. Luceres (lucomo/luceres who had aided romulus vs sabines) >religions institutions and practices (calendar and priesthoods of pontiffs, augurs, vestals, salii, flamens. >albas destruction incorporations of people into rome. Julius caesar is just a julian, in a family line. By this point is a growing and thriving city. 1st half of 5thc, distinction between patrician gentes identified as plebs. Divided between 2 consuls and rex sacrorum. Heir is not mark antony (a great supporter), but octavian (18 years old) Brutus and cassius take over east: receive superior command over all roman magistrates in the east. Octavian sets a special court to prosecute caesar"s assassins. Second triumvirate; 3-man association with absolute (legal) power for 5 years. Proscriptions: 130 senators and ca 2000 equites (cicero) >actual: money to wage war against caesar"s assassins.
