Th e Vot i n g Distric ts o f the Ro m a n Republic
Th e Vot i n g Distric ts o f the Ro m a n Republic By
L ily Ro s s Taylor
With updated material by Jerzy Linderski
T h e U ni ve r s i t y o f Michig a n Pr e ss 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 All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2016 2015 2014 2013 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
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C on ten ts A Note on the Updated Edition
vii
Preface ix List of Maps
xv
Introductory Chapters 1.
The Character of the Thirty-five Tribes
2.
The Role of People and Censors in the Assignment of Tribes
3 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 Tribes Jerzy Linderski 355 Abbreviations and Supplementary Bibliography
395
Index to Updated Material
397
A Not e o n t he Updat ed Editio 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 Monographs 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 Taylor’s book and of subsequent developments.The tour follows faithfully Taylor’s arrangement and takes up her chapters one by one, always with supplemental bibliography. The readers may be advised to pay attention to two disparate but closely connected elements, narration and enumeration. Taylor’s monograph 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. Taylor’s lists, dispersed throughout the book, are based on an assembly 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). Taylor’s reconstruction and presentation of the tribal system is a totally different matter. Here, the aim of the update is to review the engagement of subsequent scholarship with Taylor’s 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, mirroring the disposition of Taylor’s 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.
