1. Agenda Hand in Ch. 10 Lines 1-9 (your HW) Cursus Honorum notes
Review imperative and formation of verbs—make flashcards
Check “All About Verbs Sheet”
Avalanche, time permitting
HW: Finish Ch. 10

2. Cursus Honorum
Latin I
October 20, 2007

3. What is the cursus honorum?
Ladder of political advancement during the Roman Republic
Begins with quaestor and culminates, or ends, with the consul
Republic: 509 BC-44BC (assassination of Julius Caesar) or 31 BC (Augustus Caesar proclaimed dictator for life by Senate)

4. Curule offices: wore toga praetexta: toga with a purple boder.
Quaestor: lowest and first office.
Treasurer. Eligible to be a Senator.
Curile aedile: Second office.
In charge of public games, e.g. gladiators. Paid for games themselves.

5. Praetor: third office. Judges.
Consul:
Chief magistrate or official
Presided over the Senate
Served as generals on military campaigns
IMPERIUM:
the highest political authority
the right to command an army
interpret and carry out the law
and to pass sentences of death

6. DICTATOR:
“Special office”
Supposed to serve in times of military emergency.
CENSOR:
Kept role of senators and magistrates/officers
Conducted census and assessed taxes

7. Tribune of the Plebs
To protect plebeians (lower class) from patrician officials
Could veto the acts of the other magistrates
Sacrosanct: attack them=you die (immediately)

8. Major External Conflict During Republic: Punic Wars
Begin in 264 BC-146 BC
Rome vs. Carthage

9. Rome vs. Carthage: Total War
Actually a series of three wars (First Punic, Second Punic, and Third Punic) Most famous Carthaginian general: Hannibal Most famous Roman: Scipio Aficanus