CLST 103 Lecture 5: CLST 103 W2L5

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Average citizen valued going to war because success brings the spoils to them increased money and goods as a result of successful campaign. If gods are on side, will eventually win. Romans have a believe that they should just keep fighting, keep slogging on and should not surrender when other cultures of there times would of given up. At end of regal period, some expansion, but really it was in a small area relative to rome (around rome itself), by end of republican period, the romans are going to expand right through italy end of. Republican period own / control most of the mediterranean. Expansion in republican period relating to latium (latins: shared language, customs, and religious rites as rome is a. Number of different owns in relation to each other that share. Latiums are independent politically but the towns band together for the sake of mutual protection into a confederation = latin.