THE PLEBS

MARCO GUTIERREZ

PLEBEIANS• Plebeians, plebs, plebis.

• Working class in ancient Rome.

• Bakers, farmers, & craftsmen.

• Support family their family and pay their taxes.

LACK OF OPPORTUNITY• Little to no education.

• Excluded from colleges.

• No knowledge of the laws that governed them.

• No intermarriage with members of the patrician order.

REBELLION • Revolts and Strikes.

• Secessio plebis.

RESULTS • Establishment of plebeian offices.

• The Law of the Twelve Tables.

• Right of intermarriage.

• Access to high government offices and priesthoods.

BECOMING NOBILITY• Between 326 and 304 BCE some plebs became nobility.

• Shared interests.

• Novus homo

WELL KNOWN NOVI HOMINES• Gaius Marius

• Roman general and statesman• Cicero

• Roman philosopher• Lucullus

• Politician• Crassus

• Roman general and politician• Pompeius

• Pompey the Great, military and political leader

SOURCES• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs

• http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/plebians.html

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464495/plebeian