Praetor

Research Case: Why Did the Patricians Secure the Praetorship and Curule Aedileship in Exchange for Accepting a Plebeian Consul?

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A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 7 1. Question At the beginning of Livy’s Book VII, Lucius Sextius, a plebeian, entered the consulship. This was a major change in the political structure of the Roman Republic. One of Rome’s highest offices was no longer controlled only by the patricians. However, the … Read more

Research Case: Why can the compromise of the plebeian consul and the patrician praetor be read as an institutional update, not as the collapse of the Republican OS?

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A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 6 1. Question Why can the compromise of the plebeian consul and the patrician praetor be read as an institutional update, not as the collapse of the Republican OS? This question is important for understanding the endpoint of Livy’s Book 6. At the end of … Read more

Research Case: Why does the ending of Book 6 appear not as the destruction of patrician rule, but as a redistribution of authority within the Republican OS?

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A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 6 1. Question Why does the ending of Book 6 appear not as the destruction of patrician rule, but as a redistribution of authority within the Republican OS? This question is important for understanding the whole structure of Book 6 of Livy’s History of Rome … Read more