CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 28450)

CC 347: The Cultural History of Rome (Unique # 28560)

September 5: The Early Republic

I: Lingua Latina:
Salvete, Salve
Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
vae victis!

II. Business
(course homepage: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/)
Books and course packets OK?
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III. The Three Major Periods of Roman History

• Monarchy: 753 BCE - 509 BCE (according to Roman tradition)
• Republic: 509 BCE - 27 BCE
• Empire: 27 BCE - 476 CE

IV.Important features of early Roman society

• family: the importance of the paterfamilias
• patronage: patrons and clients
• religion: pax deorum
• social classes and government

V. Rome, 509-264 BCE: Internal Affairs

• The Struggle of the Orders: patricians and plebeians
• The Twelve Tables (decemviri, 451-450)

VI. Rome, 509-264 BCE: External Affairs

• Struggle to maintain independence
• The Gallic Sack: 390
• Conquest of central Italy
• Settlement of 338
• The War with Pyrrhus: 281-272

Images to Accompany Discussion 3

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