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  • GEOGRAPHY AND THE REFORM OF THE COMITIA CENTVRIATA

  • James Tan
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 1 / May 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 July 2023, pp. 109-126
    Print publication:
    May 2023
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  • This article examines the reform of the comitia centuriata in the mid to late third century b.c.e. This involved demoting in voting order the six most prestigious cavalry centuries, distributing the centuries of the first class two per tribe, and assigning one tribe's iuniores to vote first as the centuria praerogatiua. The article argues that this gave more equitable representation to rich citizens from more distant parts of Roman territory, but still preserved the essential military character of the assembly by ensuring that the serving men voted first in any election for consuls and praetors.

  • 5 - The Parvenu

  • Benjamin Hartmann, Universität Zürich
  • Book:
    The Scribes of Rome
    Published online:
    22 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 111-139

  • Summary

    The chapter reconstructs the grand themes of the social history of the Roman scribae. It tells stories of low social origin and subsequent high social mobility, of social upstarts entering the senate and the equestrian order, and of local notables acting as generous patrons of their hometowns. It analyses known lives and careers of scribae to arrive at a picture of social opportunities and possibilities of scribae in any given period.