The Early Republic

I. Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius) 
• vae victis (Livy)

II. Some Business

• Tips for Reading
• Documents on Course Web Site
• Discussion groups:
  

1. Tuesday 2-3, PHR 2.114
2. Wednesday 6-7 WRW 11
   

Left from Thursday: pax deorum

III. Features of Republican Government: "The Mixed Constitution" (Polybius)

1. Magistrates

• Consuls
• Praetors
• Quaestors
• Aediles
• Censors
• Tribunes of the plebs
• Dictator

2. Assemblies

• Comitia centuriata
• Comitia tributa
• Concilium plebis

3. The senate

4. Religious officials

• Pontifex maximus
• Colleges of priests
• Augurs
• Vestal virgins
  

IV. Patricians and Plebeians: The Struggle of the Orders

(You are responsible for all dates marked in bold, as well as for relative chronology of all events)

• Debt
• Creation of the Tribunes of the Plebs
• The Laws of the Twelve Tables (ca. 450 BCE)
  
• Opening of Magistracies and Priesthoods to Plebeians: Licinian-Sextian Laws, 367 BCE
• Greater power for concilium plebis: Hortensian Law, 287 BCE

V. The Conquest of Italy

• The Siege of Veii (ca. 396 BCE)
  
• The Gallic Sack (ca. 387 BCE)
  
• Latin War (341-338 BCE)
  
• Three Samnite Wars (343-290 BCE)
  
• Wars with Pyrrhus (280-275 BCE)
  

VI. Some characters, part legendary, part historical

• Coriolanus (fifth century BCE)
  
• Cincinnatus (fifth century BCE)
  
• Camillus (early fourth century BCE)
  
• Appius Claudius (early third century BCE)