104-80 Flashcards
Tell me three egregious things about L. Apuleius Saturninus (tribune)
- Used gangs to drive off other voters with stones and wooden clubs
- ordered the assassination of a consular candidate
- When he sought a 2nd term as tribune, some of his supporters ended up killing a rival candidate
What year did the Italians rebel for citizenship?
91
What’s Osgood about the new dynamic between gods and charismatic leaders?
Leaders also “claimed they had the unique support of the gods”
In what years did Marius have his 7 consulships
107
104-100
86
Saturninus: How many turbinates and in what general year group did he have them (early/late decade)
3 tribunates (consecutive?)
Late 100s (103-100 around)
What does Osgood say about the amount of records for the 90s?
“90s among the most poorly documented in Roman history”
What is Osgood’s key to understanding the poorly-documented 90s
Growing sense among senators that it was not just rabble-rousing tribunes who were the problem
When was Drusus killed? For what? Why can this be seen as a backfiring of Senate plans?
Killed by an unknown assassin in 91BC
Proposing the citizenship of the Italians.
Like the US initially founding Al-Qaeda to blood the USSR, Drusus had been used to outbid the more moderate Gaius.
What was the murder that can be seen as a driver of the Social War starting
Learning of Drusus’ fate, the Italian peoples living around the Apennines rebelled (including the Marsi and the Samnites)
What event is linked to the increased aggression in expansion by Mithridates VI? How so?
Social wars
Armies occupied with these wars
What states does Mithridates VI initially take control of? What thing really pissed the Romans off (+year)? Who was his main ally
Took control of: Cappadocia Bithynia Thrace Much of Greece
88: Massacre of the Romans and Italians in his Asian cities
Tigranes of Armenia
What set off Sulla marching on Rome?
On hearing that Publius Sulpici
