Voting districts of the Roman Republic : the thirty-five urban and rural tribes / Lilly Ross Taylor ; with updated material by Jerzy Linderski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Lily Ross, 1886-1969, author.

Contributor:

Linderski, Jerzy, contributor.

Series:

Papers and monographs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XXXIV.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Elections--Rome.

Elections.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : University of Michigan Press, [2021]

Summary:

Fundamental to an understanding of the Roman Republic is comprehension of the tribal system employed to organize citizens. Used first for the census, raising an army, and tax collection, tribes later became voting districts for the election of magistrates. Voting districts were distributed geographically in and around the city of Rome and eventually throughout the Italian countryside, and they have been studied through evidence largely textual and epigraphical. In this volume, first published in 1960, evidence is adduced to locate and describe the tribes' locations. In his major new update, Lily Ross Taylor's disciple and scholarly follower Jerzy Linderski brings forward new evidence resolving earlier cruces, updates the lengthy bibliography on voting districts, and situates this invaluable work in its historical perspective.

Contents:

The character of the thirty-five tribes

The role of people and censors in the assignment of tribes

The problem, the sources, and modern discussions

The location of the seventeen oldest rural tribes

The fourteen rural tribes instituted from 387 to 241

The official order of the urban and rural tribes

Extension and divisions of the rural tribes before the social war

Distribution of Italians in rural tribes after the social war

The tribes from Sulla to Caesar : the Transpadani

The urban tribes and the registration of the freedmen

Summary : list of Italian communities with tribes

The sources for the tribes of senators

List of republican senators with tribes

List by tribes of republican senatorial gentes and Italian communities

Analysis of the lists of senators and tribes

Senators and voting districts.

Notes:

copyright © by the university of michigan 2013.

Originally published by the american academy in rome 1960.

This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. copyright law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher.

Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press.

Manufactured in the United States of America.

Printed on acid-free paper.

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the british library.

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Publisher Number:

2027/heb31879 hdl