CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Noricum, Secutor, Retiarius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Very complex problem this will be an overview/simplification. List of things people regard as contributing factors leading to the fall of the republic: 1) acceptance of violence as a political tool. Starts with tiberius gracchus and only gets worse as times goes by. Individuals more important than the good of rome loss of concordia. Ruthless" linked to point 1, the use of violence as a tool: 3) client armies who owe their allegiance to their commanders and not to the. Spqr senate and the people supposed to be ones who run things isn"t working out that way. Land to the landless poor was a necessary measure for the greater good, pursued as a goal by certain politicians the gracchi, for example but the senate was against this because they would lose their land. Pompey needing land for his soldiers in 62 senate not willing to give up their land, despite all pompey and his soldiers had done for them and.