Post on 13-Jan-2016
Roman Historiography
Republican
SEMINAR IIII: Sallust BC 11-16 Party Politics ch3
Sallvst
• BC 11-16• What is is his point?• What are the buzz words?
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Challenges• Annual elections
• Different days• Special offices• Voters live far away•Polls in Rome
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– group voting system
•tribus – 35 tribes 4 urban 31 rural
» property owners– No new tribes added after 241– latifundia displacement– Social War
» Free birth rural tribesman» Divisions of original tribes scattered
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– populares v. optimates
•tribal assignments•censorship•eligible Italians•citizenship for Transpadanes
– tribuni aerarii
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Roman Electorate
• registration– urban tribes– rural tribes
» impoverished rural tribesmen» propertied men- senators, equites, tribuni aerarii
– tribal transfers» prosecutorial rewards» enlistment bonus» censorial revisions/punishments
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– freedmen– foreigners
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– middle class
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia
•tributa– chose lower magistrates– chief legislative body– each tribe voted as a unit
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata
•old military organization– met in Campus Martius
•elected consuls & praetors– Imperium
•tribal vote taken separately in 5 classes arranged in 193 centuries– according to property qualifications
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata cont.
•Property Qualifications– Class 1: ƒ 50,000 or more
» 70 centuries» 2 from each tribe» voted first» results announced before next class voted
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– comitia centuriata cont.
•praerogativa
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– cuncta Italia
• Via Appia Alban Hills to Campania– 12 tribes
• Umbria– 9 tribes
• Cisalpine Gaul– 14 tribes– Caesar & his winter breaks
• municipia
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Elections
•In July after Ludi Apollinares
•comitia centuriata– consular/praetorian elections
•comitia tributa– curule aediles, quaestors, military tribunes
•comitia plebis– plebian aediles, tribunes
Party PoliticsDelivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians– Legislation
•comitia centuriata– consuls, praetors– censorial laws
•comitia tributa– tribunes, consuls, praetors – primary body
•periods
Party Politics Delivering the Vote
p.62-75
• Campaign for Election and Legislation– office determined campaign strategy– tribules– vicinitas– curatores– divisores– tribuni aerarii– conficere tribus
Party Politics Delivering the Vote
p.62-75
• Campaign for Election and Legislation– commendation– coitiones
• sectatores
– custodes– diribitores– rogatores
Party Politics Delivering the Vote
p.62-75
• Campaign for Election and Legislation– comitia– rostra– tribunes– consuls– violence QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressorare needed to see this picture.