Transcript Party Politics

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 Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Challenges
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Annual elections
Different days
Special offices
Voters live far away
• Polls in Rome
Party Politics
Delivering 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
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Party Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians
– populares v. optimates
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tribal assignments
censorship
eligible Italians
citizenship for Transpadanes
– tribuni aerarii
Party Politics
Delivering 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
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Party Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians
– freedmen
– foreigners
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Party Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians
– middle class
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Party Politics
Delivering 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 Politics
Delivering 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 Politics
Delivering 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 Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians
– comitia centuriata cont.
• praerogativa
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Party Politics
Delivering the Vote
p.5o-62
• Role of City Plebs & Italians
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– cuncta Italia
• Via Appia Alban Hills to Campania
– 12 tribes
• Umbria
– 9 tribes
• Cisalpine Gaul
– 14 tribes
– Caesar & his winter breaks
• municipia
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Party Politics
Delivering 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 Politics
Delivering 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
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comitia
rostra
tribunes
consuls
violence
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