CLST 201 Lecture 4: CLST 201 W2L4
23 Feb 2016
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Internally, the issue of patrician versus plebeian was being resolved, albeit slowly. Beginning in 376, two tribunes, l. sextius lateranus and c. licinius. Stolo pushed for the right of plebeians to become consul: for the rest of time, the rest of their descendants would be noble. In 367 bc, the dictator, camillus, accepted their demands. In the same year that a plebeian was first elected consul, two other offices were instituted as compensation to the patricians, the praetors and the. And then moved to looking after public administration and duties, city council esque. Within twenty years, they too were opened to plebeians. Post 367 b. c: fairy complicated political system in rome. Comitia centuriata (most powerful): consuls, praetors, censors (censors every 5 years to carry out census) Concilium plebis plebeian tribunes, plebeian aediles. The religious offices were also limited to patricians in the early republic, but they were opened up to the plebeians over the same period of the political struggle.
