chapter 5 Flashcards
Class
reflects your wealth
status
legal categories
ingenuus, igenua
freeborn
libertus, liberta
freed slaves
peregrini
non-citizens
praenomen
1st name, a personal name (ex. Gaius)
nomen
2nd name, family name; most important (ex. Julius)
-shows family ties and citizenship
-family name handed down through generations
cognomen
3rd name, nickname (ex. Caesar)
agnomen
sometimes 4th name (ex. Afericanus)
women’s names
come from nomen of father (ex. Julius = Julia)
-all daughters have the same name
-prima, secunda, tertia
-early empire: women start to have a second name (cognomen)
roman citizens: public rights and duties
-vote
-hold office
-serve in roman legions
-different legal treatment
-only citizens wear togas
-tria nomina (roman naming conventions)
conubium
legitimate marriage with citizen offspring
honestiores
member of senatorial, equestrian, or decurial, had greater access to the system of justice and lighter punishment then humiliores
humiliores
not part of the senatorial, equestrian, or decurial, less access to the justice system, and had harsher punishment then honestiores
patritians
-hold offices and priesthoods
-right to display wax busts in atrium
-used at funerals
patronage
connecting patricians and plebeians
-patrons and clients
-relationship between rich and poor
-freeborn clients can choose
client (pleb) responsibilities
-accompany patron to forum
-support him in getting elected
-morning visit to his house
salutatio
morning visit to his house
3 categories of wealthy citizens
-senators
-equities
-decurions
decurions
-town counsellors in cities outside Rome
republic
patrician/plebian
late republic
noble/non noble
-nobillis (means you have been elected consul)
-new man (novus homo: ancestors haven’t held consulship)
-Marius, Cicero
comita centuriata
voting
how many wealth classes (“centuries”) during republic?
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