The VoTing DisTricTs of The

roman republic

The VoTing DisTricTs of The

roman republic

by

lily ross Taylor

With updated material by Jerzy Linderski

The uniVersiTy of michigan press

ann arbor

Copyright by the University of Michigan 2013

The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic

Originally published by the American Academy in Rome 1960

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C O n T e n T S

a note on the updated edition vii

preface ix

list of maps xv

inTroDucTory chapTers

1. The character of the Thirty- five Tribes 3

2. The role of people and censors in the assignment of Tribes 17

parT i. The geographical DisTribuTion of The Tribes in iTaly

3. The problem, the sources, and modern Discussions 27

4. The location of the seventeen oldest rural Tribes 35

5. The fourteen rural Tribes instituted from 387 to 241 47

6. The official order of the urban and rural Tribes 69

7. extension and Divisions of rural Tribes before the social War 79

8. Distribution of italians in rural Tribes after the social War 101

9. The Tribes from sulla to caesar; the Transpadani 118

10. The urban Tribes and the registration of the freedman 132

11. summary; list of italian communities with Tribes 150

parT ii. The Tribes of republican senaTors

12. The sources of the Tribes of senators 167

13. list of republican senators with Tribes 184

14. list by Tribes of republican senatorial gentes and italian communities 270

15. analysis of the lists of senators and Tribes 277

conclusion

16. senators and Voting Districts 297

appendix: The Tribes of antium and of other Towns with Two Tribes 319

addenda 325

list of abbreviations 327

selective list of sources Discussed 331

index of the Thirty- five urban and rural Tribes 333

general index 337

maps follow page 354

lily ross Taylor and the roman TribesJerzy Linderski 355

abbreviations and supplementary bibliography 395

index to updated material 397

A n O T e O n T h e U P DAT e D e D I T I O n

The monograph The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic by lily ross Taylor was published in rome in 1960 in the series papers and mono-graphs of the american academy in rome. it soon achieved the status of a classic, assiduously read, consulted, and quoted. The volume has long been out of print, and the need for a new edition has been acutely felt. The book weathered the time very well, yet more than fifty years have elapsed since the original date, and scholarship on its subject has not stood still.

The goal of the postscript to this reprint, lily ross Taylor and the roman Tribes, is modest: to provide a guided tour of Taylors book and of subsequent developments. The tour follows faithfully Taylors arrangement and takes up her chapters one by one, always with supplemental bibliog-raphy. The readers may be advised to pay attention to two disparate but closely connected elements, narration and enumeration. Taylors mono-graph is a web of description and argument accompanied by a plethora of frequently consulted lists of sources and of tribes, people, and places. accordingly, there are two sides to the update.

Taylors lists, dispersed throughout the book, are based on an as-sembly of a vast source material, primarily epigraphical. here, the pool of evidence has increased dramatically. furthermore, many texts she had used are now available in new and better editions, often with an extensive prosopographical commentary. ultimately, most of her enumerations will have to undergo a thorough revision. This update offers a brief beginning, especially with respect to the lists of italian communities with their tribes (159 64) and of the sources for the tribes of senators (167 83).

Taylors reconstruction and presentation of the tribal system is a totally different matter. here, the aim of the update is to review the en-gagement of subsequent scholarship with Taylors arguments and theories; occasionally to attempt a further discussion of various particular issues; and above all, when there is new evidence, to supplement or correct her findings. altogether the postscript assembles a fair amount of additional information, and to facilitate its use, it is equipped with its own index, mir-roring the disposition of Taylors register.

maps form an integral part of the book. in the original edition, they were appended to several chapters as foldout pages. in this reprint, they are, for technical reasons, reproduced at the same scale but on multiple pages grouped together at the end of the volume.