Women In Power Flashcards
Assemblywomen [4]:
- Athenian play
- Written by Aristphanes
- Satirical (comedical)
- The play centers around a Kyria named Praxagora and a group of women she has recruited
Where and how often would the Athenian assembly gather ?
Every 10 days on the pnyx
Who was not allowed to vote? [6]:
- people under 18
- women
- slaves/ ex-slaves
- non- Athenian citizens
- people who have not payed taxes
- people who have not served in the military for 2years
Who was the boule? [5]:
- council of 500 citizens
- they would write the agenda of what the assembly would discuss
- compromised of 50 men from 10 tribes by sortation
- could not refuse or volunteer
- only twice in their lifetime
Who were the archons? [3]
- each year 10 archons (one from each tribe) would be chosen by sortation
- acted as judges
- only could be there for a year
What is ostracism?
- once a year each citizen would take a piece from a broken ostracon and would write the name of the person they wish to ostracise
- the person with most votes was exiled for 10 years, they could keep their property and their family didn’t have to leave
How could a woman have political influence? [3]
- be associated with a man in power (eg. Aspasia)
- have an advanced education
- not be enslaved
Assemblywomen [4]:
- Athenian play
- Written by Aristphanes
- Satirical (comedical)
- The play centers around a Kyria named Praxagora and a group of women she has recruited
The Assemblywomen plot [4]:
- Praxagora has devised a scheme to take power from the men in Athens and give it to the women
- They disguise themselves as men and infiltrate the Assembly
- They will force a vote on whether political power in athens should be given to the women
- As the women gather together they talk about their husbands in a comedic manner
In the ‘Assemblywomen’ women are presented as…[4]:
- Unreliable
- Vain
- Obssessed with sex
- Obssessed with alcohol
The trial of Agnodice [5]:
- Agnodice was a female doctor disguised as a man
- She was very popular with her female patients
- The husbands thought their wives were having an affair with Agnodice
- There was a court trial which revealed Agnodice was posing as a man
- The woman pleaded Agnodice’s case so that she would be able to legally carry out her medical practice
Before Agnodice women were not legally allowed to be…
doctors
The structure of the Roman senate [5]:
- The emperor
- The two consuls [2] co-heads of military and political relations and passed laws
- Praetors [8] ran law courses
- Aedile [4] oversaw public services
- Quaestors [20] managed romes finances
The 2 consuls =
The republic
The Catilinarian Conspiracy [3]:
- Lead by a Roman Man called Catiline
- It was a plot devised to overthrow the republic
- Ultimately the conspiracy failed
Catiline [3]:
- He was from a wealthy family
- He had some political talent so he run for the consulship and failed several times
- This was very expensive, rendering him almost bankrupt in 63bc
One of Cataline’ smost appealing promises to his follwers was to…
Cancel all debt after his revolution
Many of Cataline’s supporters were in a similar…
financial situation to Cataline
The events of the Castilinarian Conspiracy were recorded by…
The historian and polititian Sallust
how did a man become a senator ?
-once a man had been elected he was automatically a senate for life
how many magistrates chosen a year?
once a year the people would vote fir a magistrate
dictatorship in rome [3]
- would be chosen by consuls in times of emergency
- would have more power over consols and had total power
- would be expected to step down after 6 months
fabia [3]
- married to a plebeian man
- her sisters husband was a patrician and was a consol so she was jealous
- her father was so moved that he removed the law that plebeian men could apply for consulship
what is the roman voting system like?
america.
