CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ultimate Power, Praetor, Cursus Honorum

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

Document Summary

All the power in one person, only works with benevolent leader. Unpleasant situation when king doesn"t put needs of the people first. Tarquinius superbus tarquinius the proud, the last king, son of the fifth king (tarquinius. Angry he did not become king after his father (kings were elected, not by blood) he killed the previous king (servius tullius) Because he took it by force, he needed to use fear to stay in control, stories of his cruelty. With public buildings, citizens had to build everything some resenment: tarqunius suprbus: sextus (son), collatinus (noble), lucretia (colluntanius" wife), brutus. One night while besieging another town, the elite young men, (sextus, collatinus, other young men) are drinking and talking about their wives. Each man claims to have the best wife. In the course of the conversation they go over the virtues of each of their wives, so. Collatinus suggests that they go visit their wives.