CLA 1102 Lecture 3: CLA 1102 – Week 3.docx
20 Apr 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Realize there are not a lot of slaves yet so call for general strike. All leave rome and camp outside of rome. None of this works since everyone is gone: plabians. Realized quickly that they"re at the bottom/majority/99% Plabians have own political positions (tribute of the. Soo lasts hundreds of years and ends 2nd century bc. Plabians agitate and patricians allow them to become consoles. Particians then stop having consoles and have tribunes . Then for years there aren"t any consoles. Only patricians knew what the law was, so plabians could be arrested for anything. Patricians could make up laws and no one would know. These guys are called the decemviri: establish and publish the laws. Plabians most likely can"t read, but one of them must. Appius claudius = main guy of decemviri: laws are not finished in 1 year (451-450, decide to carry on for one more year, abusing power, ac becomes a tirant.
