Livy Book II
Major Issues in Livy’s history:
Decline(?)
The Rise of Rome
Proper Rule
Libertas/Liberty
The Transition to the consuls and the role of the senate (Aristocratic Republic). The beginnings of Republican government. Book II.
The Rise of Rome
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Senate; senators, knights or equites
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Consul
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Fasces or rods; lictors
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Imperium: ‘Rule’ and ‘Empire’
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Tribune, Tribune of the Plebs or People’s Tribune
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Patricians and Plebs
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Continued fighting with neighbors on the Italian mainland
The continued importance of exemplarity in book II.
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Horatius Cocles
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G. Mucius “Scaevola”
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Cloelia
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Coriolanus
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The Fabii (cf. the Horatii from Book I)
Discord between the patricians and the plebs
Secession of the Plebs
Tribune of the People, tribunus plebis
Inviolability, sacrosanctitas
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