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Cato the elder and the roman republic

Cato the elder and the roman republic. Week Four. l ess = without. s peech_____. fear_____. breath_____. o logy = the study of. cosmetology. psychology. meteorology. I. Cato the Elder.

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Cato the elder and the roman republic

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  1. Cato the elder and the roman republic Week Four

  2. less = without speech_____ fear_____ breath_____

  3. ology = the study of cosmetology psychology meteorology

  4. I. Cato the Elder • A spokesperson for traditional values, even as he benefits from the new world of commerce and internationalism

  5. II. Hellenistic Greece A. The Rise of Macedon • Philip II (359-336) fills the vacuum left by the Greek disunity • Assassination leaves the throne to son Alexander

  6. II. Hellenistic Greece B. Empire of Alexander the Great 1. Alexander’s conquests (334-323) • Military victories to India 2. Binding together an empire • Respected local customs • Alliances through marriage • New cities: Alexandria in Egypt

  7. Alexander’s empire

  8. III. The Roman Republic A. Roman ideals • Farming in Latium • Paterfamilias: system in which father has total authority; curia • Traditional values • Honesty, hard work, frugality, and farming • Legends of early Rome: Cincinnatus and Remus and Romulus

  9. paterfamilias

  10. Cincinnatus plowing his land

  11. Roman legend of Romulus and Remus

  12. III. Roman Republic B. Etruscan realities (800-500) • Not so provincial • Etruscan League. • Urban growth • Not so ideal • Class divisions between patricians and plebeians • Political inequalities in the new centuriate • Legacy of the Etruscans • Rome transforms into a unified, prosperous urban center

  13. IV. Roman Imperialism A. Political expansion • Military campaigns brought all of Italy under Roman control by 264. B. Punic Wars • First Punic War (265-241): Rome outlasts Carthage

  14. The Punic Wars

  15. IV. Roman Imperialism • Second Punic War • Cato joins the army • Hannibal’s epic march—with elephants!—inflicts devastation on Romans. • Romans rally; defeat Hasdrubal; take the fight to North Africa • Third Punic War • Cato: “Carthage must be destroyed”

  16. Hannibal’s elephants

  17. IV. Roman Imperialism C. Expansion into the Hellenistic East

  18. phobia = the fear of acrophobia claustrophobia arachnophobia

  19. ian/or = a person who . . . centenar_____ vegetar_____ librar_____ What suffix could finish these?

  20. V. The Roman Republic A. Cato’s rise to power • Public service • An arbitrator of disputes • Patronage • Flaccus: a young nobleman from a patrician family Sabine farm

  21. V. The Roman Republic B. Cato’s offices and republican civilization • Military tribune • Aedile • Quaestor • Censor • Consul: Oppian Law and the women’s rebellion • Governor of Hispania: ruthless destruction and then incorporation of the conquered

  22. V. The Roman Republic • Plebeian resistance • Law of the Twelve Tables • Cato’s support of democratic reform • Traditional values • Severity • Frugality • Simplicity Reading the Twelve Tables

  23. Tour of a Roman home

  24. V. The Roman Republic Crisis of Roman Virtue • Gender roles change • More luxury • Urban squalor • Cato, like many others, complicit in these changes • Cato as a transitional figure—Janus-faced

  25. Roman fly-over

  26. Epilogue • The Cato Institute • A prominent libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C.

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