1. Classical Civilisation AS
From villages to a World Empire

2. Useful fictions Aeneas Family values Respect for parents
Respect for the
gods
Sacrifice for Rome

3. The Tiber
How significant is the Tiber?
Rume

4. Seven Hills of Rome
Look closely at the Tiber

5. Romulus and Remus
Mars
Rhea Sylvia
She wolf
Roma
Foundation Myth

6. Etruscan Origins
Why the truth does not fit…

7. 7 Kings Romulus Numa Pompilius Tullius Hostilius Ancius Marcius
Tarquinas Priscus
Servius Tulius
Tarquinius Superbus

8. Rome and Italy Conqueror? Patricians Equines Plebians Citizens
The deal

9. Roma and Carthage
Why Hannibal didn’t win…
‘Hannibal ante portas’

10. Rome and Greece
Money, money, money
The dependency culture

11. Rome’s internal struggle
The Gracchi Populares and Optimates
Marcus Livius Drusus

12. The Social War 91BC-88BC Rome loses battles but wins wars Lex Julia
Lex Plautia Papiria
Roman citizenship
The rise of Sulla and Marius

13. The Roman Consititution
The Government

14. Cursus Honorum Military Tribune –basic military command experience
Questor –financial oversight and oversight of the games
Aedile –temples, public buildings, water, markets, organising ludi
Praetor –judges, in charge of Rome’s garrison
Propraetor –after Praetor then governed a province
Consul –commanded large scale armies, controlled political agenda
Governor- ex consuls governed the most important provinces
Censor –constructing public buildings, senate membership, citizenship qualifications
Plebian Tribune –sacrosanct, rights of veto and presenting legislation
Princeps Senatus –honorary position in senate, first to speak
Dictator –temporary absolute ruler in a crisis, appointed by senate

15. Marius 157BC-86BC Hero of the People 7 times consul Reforms army
Populares
Step-uncle of
Julius Caesar

16. Sulla 138BC-78BC Optimes The Social War The first civil war
Proscriptions
Reforms
Dictatorship
Retiral

17. ‘I am Spartacus!’ c109BC-71BC Thracian slave, soldier, gladiator
The Third Servile War
Slavery
Roman Entertainments
Political Importance

18. Patrons and Clients
Caesar increases the games to 14 days

19. Ludi and munera How the games became political…
Manes and munus
Ludi and munera
How the games became political…

20. How many could the circus hold?
The greens, the reds, the blues, the whites…

21. Crassus
Mr Money

22. Cato the Elder
Censor

23. Pompey
The Great

24. Julius Caesar
Dictator for life
Wore red shoes

25. Cicero
Our Hero

26. Cicero in the Senate
Attacking Cataline

27. Antony, Cleopatra and Octavian/Augustus

28. The Twelve Caesars Tzars and Kaisars Julius Augustus Tiberius Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Galba
Otho
Vitellius
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian

29. The Good Emperors
Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius

30. Anarchy and Civil War Maximus to Diocletian
Two Augusti and Two Caesars
‘In hoc signo’
Constantine
Julian
Decline and Fall

31. Two Empires
Popes, Goths, Vandals, Huns and Saxons