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The Idea That Was Rome

I. The Origins of Rome

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A. Relevance of Roman History to the Past and Present West

1. Greeks v. Romans: inclusiveness

2. Western “template”

language, government, law, religion

3. Republic or Empire?

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B. Early Roman Civilization

1. Greek colonization

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2. Carthage and Phoenician colonies

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C. Etruscan Civilization

1. From Asia Minor, 2000s-1500 BCE

a. De-centralized tribes

b. Eastern gods, mythology

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2. 800s BCE - confederation

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3. Etruscan life

a. sharp class division

b. hydraulic, urban society

c. high status of women

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D. Latium (Latin) Civilization

1. 700 BCE - Alban League

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2. Basic family unit - “paterfamilia”

patricians, plebians

3. Senate

4. Mythology

Cincinnatus, Horatio Cocles, Lucretia

Romulus and Remus

farmers, soldiers, and virtue

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E. Etruscan Rome

1. 600s = Etruscans conquer central Italy

a. land-use technology

b. military service/property ownership

c. class stratification

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2. Last Etruscan King - Tarquinio

3. Republic, unified Italy

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II. The Roman Republic, 509-79? BCE

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• Paradox of Republican Rome

Values espoused not values maintained by ruling Senate

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A. Republic and class compromise

1 . Law of 12 Tables (450 BCE)

2. Conquest of Italian peninsula

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B. The Punic Wars, 265 - 146 BCE

1. Nearly defeated Rome

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Livy, The Punic Wars

Hannibal Barca

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2. Long-term implications of Punic Wars would put great stress on republican Rome

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III. Culture in Republican Rome

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A. Empire of Farmers and Soldiers

1. Spokesman of republican virtue

Cato the Elder

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1. Women

2. Sons

3. Slaves

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Fear of Slave Revolt

73 BC - Spartacus leads slave revolt; 70,000

Required 3 Roman armies to defeat him

Led to “hysteria” among free Romans

Crassus v. Pompey: origins of dictatorship

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C. the Equestrian Class

1. Growing power through non-traditional means

“new men” - officers, merchants, aristocrats of the empire

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D. Senate instransigience

1. The Gracchus brothers (see Plutarch)

2. Public display

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E. Religion

1. No specific caste of priests

2. Each family had its own gods, spirits

- ancestor worship

3. Romans adopted other gods, ie the Greeks

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4. State intolerant of non-sanctioned religions

Cult of Isis, Bacchus

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Persecution of the Cult of Bacchus was endemic of larger problems

- growing class disparity; slavery

- traditional male status in decline

- no unifying public religion

- Patricians hostile to any reform

EAMUS CATULI!

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IV. Fall of the Republic

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A. Crisis of Government, ca. 100 BC

1. The Social Wars

- Livius Drusus, expansion of citizenship

2. Losing grip on Empire

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3. First Roman dictatorship, 83-79 BC

a. Sulla

b. made army loyal to

commander

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B. Last-ditch effort to save the Republic

1. Cicero = “stoicism”

2. Restore republican

virtues and accountability

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C. Republic descends into Civil Wars, 79-44 BC

1. Pompey, conquered Spain

2. Crassus, crushed Spartacan revolt

3. Julius Caesar, conquest of Gaul

59 BC, the First Triumvirate

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4. Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC

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5. Assassination of Julius Caesar, March 15, 44 BC

6. Renewed War: Octavian v. Marc Antony

Cleopatra?

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7. Octavian defeats Marc Antony at Battle of Actium, 31 BC

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Octavian changes name to Caesar Augustus

Rules empire as an Emperor

Senate remains, but republic is lost

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V. Rome in the Augustan Age

The Pax Romana, 31 BC - 192 AD (CE)

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A. Why did Imperial system work in replacing the Republic?

1. Augustus worked within construct of law

2. Emperors could choose successors

Augustus, Tiberius: 23 BC - 37 AD

five “good Emperors”: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian,

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius: 96-180 AD

cooperated with the Senate; reformers

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***System Augustus set up could survive “bad emperors”

Caligula, Claudius, Nero

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3. Reform the Senate

4. Build Equestrian class

5. Army reform

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6. “Rounded off” the boundaries of the Empire

Height of Empire, 116 A.D.

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B. Culture of Imperial Rome

1. Augustus hoped to re-instill “republican virtues”

2. Reward soldiers with land

3. Assist urban poor of Rome with food, public works

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C. “corruption” of republican virtue

1. In Imperial system, women obtain greater influence

- marriage, court intrigue, cults, divorce, eulogies

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2. “bad” emperors hated for extravagance

Claudius gets a foot rub

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3. The longer Rome was ruled by an Emperor, the less possible it was to return to republic

- Marcus Aurelius

Roman historians of the Imperial Era longed for the old republic, but strains of empire made that impossible


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