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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 Annual elections Different days Special offices Voters live far away
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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
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
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
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 • Role of City Plebs & Italians • comitia centuriata cont. • praerogativa
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
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