1. Roman Historiography Republican SEMINAR IIII: Sallust BC 11-16 Party Politics ch3

2. Sallvst BC 11-16 What is is his point? What are the buzz words?

3. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Challenges Annual elections Different days Special offices Voters live far away Polls in Rome

4. Party Politics Delivering 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

5. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Role of City Plebs & Italians –populares v. optimates tribal assignments censorship eligible Italians citizenship for Transpadanes –tribuni aerarii

6. Party Politics Delivering 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

7. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Role of City Plebs & Italians –freedmen –foreigners

8. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Role of City Plebs & Italians –middle class

9. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Role of City Plebs & Italians –comitia tributa –chose lower magistrates –chief legislative body –each tribe voted as a unit

10. Party Politics Delivering 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

11. Party Politics Delivering 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

12. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.5o-62 Role of City Plebs & Italians –comitia centuriata cont. praerogativa

13. Party Politics Delivering 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

14. Party Politics Delivering 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

15. Party Politics Delivering 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

16. 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

17. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.62-75 Campaign for Election and Legislation –commendation –coitiones sectatores –custodes –diribitores –rogatores

18. Party Politics Delivering the Vote p.62-75 Campaign for Election and Legislation –comitia –rostra –tribunes –consuls –violence