CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tribal Assembly, Anthropomorphism, Plebs

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

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Peoples who could reach consulship, important to have ancestors who already have consuls. During the centuries, there were roman citizens who wanted to be consul - ie. cicero, although ca(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) aristocratic fa(cid:373)ily, did(cid:374)"t have co(cid:374)suls i(cid:374) fa(cid:373)ily. Nobilis = noble = people who had a consul as an ancestor. Cicero, didn"t have ancestor among the consul. People who belong to the main families. Holding offices, armies were entrusted to them. Homo novus, who had held consul twice. Marcus tullius cicero from arpinum = homo novus. When he ran for consulship as a new man, he was pretty aversed by noble men. He was attacked by q. metellus nepos = metalli family was important in consul. Dignity of the family, services to the state a(cid:374)d to you have to have dig(cid:374)ity for his fa(cid:373)ily. Even though most people did not trust people to be in power for so long, he was. Responsible for reform of the roman army.