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Plebeian Tribunes and the Government of Early Rome
Many modern scholars have argued that the consulship was not created at the foundation of the Republic as Roman tradition maintained, and that the government of the early Republic went through several stages of development before it reached the familiar ‘classical constitution.’ Building on this work, this article considers what the early civilian government of Rome may have looked like. It is argued that the Romans did not create an entirely new government (based on consuls) following the removal of the monarchy, but instead made use of existing sources of power and authority: rich land-owning clans dominated military activity outside the city, while priests, the curiae, and minor officials exercised responsibilities of civilian governance in Rome. The plebeian tribunate was probably the first significant office to be created in the Republic, and the unusual nature of its power (sacrosanctity) and the absence of any other chief magistracy enabled the tribunes to acquire a broad range of prerogatives. A series of reforms eventually led to the development of the familiar ‘classical constitution’, and the consulship and praetorship became the most prestigious and desired magistracies (and—outside the city—the most powerful), but the tribunes long retained the broadest prerogatives for civilian governance inside the city.
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WHO WAS WATCHING WHOM? A REASSESSMENT OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GERMANICUS AND PISO
Despite Tacitus' insinuations to the contrary, Cn. Calpurnius Piso (cos. 7 B.C.E.) was no friend and loyal supporter of Emperor Tiberius. The emperor offered Piso the command of Syria in an effort to win over the political support of this prestigious-but-recalcitrant senator. As a safeguard should Piso attempt something treacherous in this powerful command, Tiberius gave Piso the province at a time when Germanicus Caesar—the emperor's loyal adopted son and heir—would be in the East resolving a number of economic problems in the eastern provinces. Thus Piso was not sent to watch the prince, but to be watched by him.
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CONTROLLING TRAVEL: DEPORTATION, ISLANDS AND THE REGULATION OF SENATORIAL MOBILITY IN THE AUGUSTAN PRINCIPATE
In her recent article in this journal, Sarah T. Cohen argued that the Roman practice of deportatio ad insulam the punishment of exile to an island so commonly found in Roman law from the Imperial Era had as its genesis Augustus banishment of his daughter Julia to the island of Pandateria (and a number of her lovers to other islands) in 2 B.C. While Cohen is certainly correct that Julia's banishment is a critical milestone in the development of island exile, there are several reasons to believe that Augustus thinking on the nature and purpose of exile had already begun evolving long before he sent Julia to Pandateria
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The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces by Daniel J. Gargola (review)
Mommsen’s magisterial authority led several generations of scholars to imagine the republican government as a formal system of law-based institutions with fixed legal authorities organized in a defined hierarchy. Descriptions by ancient authors, methods of dividing time and space, and the ways religious cult, antiquarianism, and law shaped Rome’s self-conception all “emphasized the city itself over the territory that it dominated” (43). The third chapter argues that Italy held a special place in Rome’s spatial imagination, because “the Romans from the third century gave to it formal frontiers, imposed upon it a level of organization not found elsewhere in Rome’s empire, and raised from it the armies with which they would assert power more widely in the Mediterranean world” (83).
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