HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 16: 1M03 Week 9a
9 Jan 2016
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Problems facing the republic: military/territorial expansion, senate"s weakness apparent. Consul, always wanting to get his way. Making apparent to all that the senate is weak. More and more tribunes using their power to create change: rise of ambitious tribunes, ambition of roman elite. Political parties who share similar oppinions on the senate. Populares believes that power should come from the people. Optimates believe that power should come from the senate. They don"t mind having rules broken for their own concerns. Legal, political speeches: attitudes and practices of the time: probably the most flourishing in the amount of sources and the specificity of it. Before the kind dies, he adopts jugurtha: 112-110: roman campaigns against jugurtha. Jugurtha bribes all the consuls and senates so that nothing really appens: 109-108: quintus caecilius metellus. He actually decides to do something and not be bribed by jugurtha: c. marus. He climbs the ladder to become the praetor of spain in 115.
