Cursus Honorum

Question 0

In order from Top down?

Answer 0

Dictator - censor - consul / proconsul - praetor / propraetor - aediles (curule and plebeian) - tribune - quaestor - patricians or plebeians

Question 1

What is the cursus honorum?

Answer 1

The sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the republic and early empire

Question 2

Magistrates: 2 consuls

Answer 2

Convened + presided over senate & assemblies, initiate and admin legislation, generals in military campaigns, rep rome in foreign affairs
Could appoint and/or serve as dict up to 6 months in emergency (ended- governed a province as proconsul)

Question 3

Magistrates: 8 praetors

Answer 3

Judges in law courts but cd convene the senate & assemblies, assumed admin duties of consuls when these were absent from Rome (end- might govern a province as propraetor)

Question 4

Magistrates: 2 censors

Answer 4

Elected every 5 years for terms of 1 1/2 years, revised lists of senators & equestrians, conducted census of citizens and property assessments for tax purposes, granted state contracts

Question 5

Magistrates: 4 aediles

Answer 5

Supervised public places, public games and the grain supply in the city of Rome, 2 plebeians and two (of more status) could come from either order so called curule aediles

Question 6

Magistrates: 10 tribunes

Answer 6

plebeian, (office est to protect the plebs from arbitrary actions of mag’s) could veto any act of an m and stop any official act of admin. By law - sacrosanct (anyone who attacked them physically = killed) cd convene senate and assemblies & initiate legislation

Question 7

Magistrates: 20 quaestors

Answer 7

Administered finances of state treasury, served in various capacities in the provinces, when elected q a man auto became eligible for membership in senate, tho censors had to appoint him to fill a vacancy

Question 8

Senate

Answer 8

600 (ex&)magistrates - for life unless expelled (min qualification quaestor)
Met in Curia in forum Romanum. Tech. An advisory body was chief gov body (cont public finances & foreign affairs, assigned military commands & provinces, debated and passed decrees - submitted to a’s for final ratification
Republic gov symbolised by SPQR senatus populusque Romania “the senate and the roman people”

Question 9

Assemblies - all males full roman citizens, votes counted in groups not individually (majorities)
Assembly of the curiae (comitia curiata)

Answer 9

Oldest assembly, by the late republic had mostly ceremonial and clan functions

Question 10

Assembly of the centuries (comitia centuriata)

Answer 10

Elected consuls, praetors, censors; declared war; served as court of appeal for citizens sentenced to death
The 193 c’s determined by wealth and richest c’s were the smallest so individual votes in these counted more heavily (when maj of 193 votes was reached voting stopped so many of large c’s rarely got to cast votes

Question 11

Assembly of the tribes (comitia tributa)

Answer 11

Elected all other magistrates, voted yea it no on laws, 35 tribes were originally determined geographically and then passed on by birth. Subgroup the concilium plebis - after 287bce measures passed had force of laws binding on the whole state