Household/Education
Religion
Arts/Literature and Law
Effect of the Decline of the Roman Republic
Values
100
Paterfamilias
Who is the head of the family?
100
gods and goddesses
Who they worshiped?
100
Latin literature was strongly influenced by this
What are Greek qualities?
100
Oligarchy that managed trough wealth, patronage, and intimidation to maintain its hold over the magistrates and senate.
Who were the nobiles?
100
The dutiful execution of one's obligations to fellow citizens, gods, and state
What is pietas?
200
Girls learn skills to be good wives.
What was the purpose for girls receiving an education?
200
Six girls between the ages of 6-10 who guarded the fire in the church.
What is vestal virgins?
200
A means of exalting the ideas and interest in history of the upper class
What is Latin prose?
200
Sever damage was caused to farmers lands during the Second Punic War and to win the war military service was increased to 6 years. The land was left without care and when farmers returned they chose to sell their land to aristocrats rather than repair the deteriorated land. Contributed to decline in number of small citizen farmers, landless families drifted to cities.
What happened to the small farmers who had made up most of the Roman army?
200
Some Romans blamed the loss of old Roman public spirit on this
What is the Destruction of Carthage?
300
Term for women having no legal control even after married.
What is sine manu?
300
People who interoperate signs or warnings from the gods.
Who is the augurs?
300
Two famous Roman playwrights with different styles
Who are Plautus and Terence?
300
"the best men" nobiles who controlled senate and worked to maintain their oligarchical privileges.
Who were the optimates?
300
A concern of maintaining the customs/traditions of ancestors
What is mos maiorum?
400
These women had more freedom.
What is the upper-class women?
400
These grew into very large, day long events and became very important to the romans
What is the religious festivals?
400
When the Twelve Tables became irrelevant and civil law derived from the Twelve Tables proved inadequate the praetors issued guidelines for how to deal with legal cases.
How did the Romans deal with the irrelevance of the Twelve Tables?
400
"favoring the people" - ambitious aristocrats who used people's assemblies to break domination of optimates
Who were the populares?
400
People who Marcus Cato scolded because he thought of them as a threat to Roman political life
What is a Greekling?
500
How did education develop and change? Explain.
-families providing edu. to focus on liberal arts ...
500
The infusion of both religions
What is the "Greco-Roman" religion?
500
Law of Nations - "that part of the law which we apply both to ourselves and to foreigners." Natural law - divine law derived from right reason primarily influenced by greek philosophy and in particular, Stoicism.
What is the law of nations and natural law?
500
Optimates controlled the senate while the populares tried to break the domination of optimates through the control of the people's assemblies
What was the relationship between the optimates and the populares?
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