Georg Niebuhr believed plebeians were possibly foreigners immigrating from other parts of Italy. This hypothesis, that plebeians were racially distinct...

tribune of the people or plebeian tribune (Latin: tribunus plebis) was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the plebeians, and was, throughout...

between the patricians and the plebeians. The status of patricians gave them more political power than the plebeians, but the relationship between the...

that the tribes of the Plebeian Council included only plebeians, whereas the tribes of the Tribal Assembly included both plebeians and patricians. However...

less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were often equally wealthy. As civil rights for plebeians increased during...

between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC in which the plebeians sought political...

aediles: the first were the "plebeian aediles" (Latin: aediles plebis) and possession of this office was limited to plebeians; the other two were "curule...

The Plebeian (Spanish: El plebeyo) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Rosita Arenas, Raúl Martínez and Chula Prieto...

sharing of power with the plebeians, while others favoured it, and some were divided. Many gentes included both patrician and plebeian branches. These may have...

considered the embodiment of the plebeians, they were sacrosanct. Their sacrosanctity was enforced by a pledge the plebeians took to kill anyone who harmed...

and plebeians drawn up by a body composed by both patricians and plebeians (the majority of the members of the second decemvirate being plebeians)? In...

plebeians seceding to the Mons Sacer (the Sacred Mountain), over three miles from the city, on the advice of Lucius Sicinius Vellutus. The plebeians then...

discrimination against the plebeians as such", and their law was a victory for the plebeians who were attracted to the plebeian movement and chose to join...

descended from patricians who had become plebeians via transitio ad plebem, or were descended from plebeians who had held curule offices. The nobiles...

bring the plebeians back from their secession to the Janiculum. It was the final result of the long struggle between patricians and plebeians, where the...

was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens). His son, Caeso Quinctius, caused the plebeians to fall into poverty when he violently...

issue to flare into a more widespread concern about plebeian rights. As a result, the plebeians seceded and departed to the nearby Mons Sacer (the Sacred...

called Plebeians (Latin: plebs) . During the first phase of political development, the Patrician aristocracy dominated the state, and the Plebeians began...

tribunes of ancient Rome who opened the consulship to the plebeians. A member of the plebeian Licinia gens, Stolo was tribune from 376 BC to 367 BC, during...

people, or plebeian tribunes, were instituted in 494 BC, after the first secession of the plebs, in order to protect the interests of the plebeians against...

Rome. The Plebeian Games may have been celebrated among the common people without an official place on the religious calendar until plebeians rose to positions...

the protection of plebeians and, later, power-sharing with the patricians (who monopolised political power) with the rich plebeians. The patricians resisted...

first plebeian pontifex maximus, in 254 BC. The law further required that five of the augurs be plebeians. Other laws concerning the status of plebeians: Lex...

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intermarriage between patricians and plebeians was thus repealed. The second question, however, permitting plebeians to stand for the consulship, was not...

and plebeians drawn up by a body composed by both patricians and plebeians (the majority of the members of the second decemvirate being plebeians)? In...

to have won over the plebeians as well. However, Brutus and Sicinius scheme to defeat Coriolanus and instigate another plebeian riot in opposition to...

of citizens. For example, the concilium plebis, or plebeian council, was for meetings of plebeians only. The third type of gathering, the convention (Latin:...

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plebeians of six. For Cornell, this raises some questions: Why from 444 to 401 BC were there only two plebeians? Why, given the presence of plebeians...