This short piece is designed to be a response to the article by Orit Malka.

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Disqualified witnesses between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: A response to Orit Malka

This note discusses Cicero’s reference to the contribution of Firmum and the Marrucini to the early stages of the mobilisation against Mark Antony in 43 BCE, and sets them in the context of Cicero’s previous connections with those communities.

Politics of Gratitude: A Note on Cic. Phil. 7.23

\nThe speech of Spurius Ligustinus in Livy (42.34.2-15) presents a full account of the life and career of a Middle Republican centurion, sometimes dismissed as patriotic invention, but alternatively used as evidence for the social, economic and military history of the second century BCE. This article argues that the information for Ligustinus’s life and career was culled from archived census records, a theory that best explains the biographical details that would not turn up if Livy or his annalistic source simply wanted to generate a conventional rhetorical account of military accomplishment.

A Census Record as a Source in Livy?: The Life and Career of Spurius Ligustinus

Summary The year 88 was a turning point in Roman republican history. The Social War was yet to finish, Mithradates VI of Pontus invaded Roman Asia, and Rome eventually descended into its first full-fledged civil war resulting from insurmountable differences between conservatives and reformists centered on the suffrage rights of the newly enfranchised Latin and Italian allies and who was to pursue of the Mithradatic War. Against this volatile backdrop, this paper represents the first dedicated study of the Sulpician Law on the suffrage of the freedmen, perhaps the least understood of the divisive centerpieces of the renegade tribune of the plebs P. Sulpicius’ legislative program. After first establishing the overall parameters of the issue of freedmen suffrage in the Roman Republic from the late 4 th century BCE onwards, the paper suggests that Roman freedmen did not make for a potentially overwhelming ‘patronless’ urban proletariat but instead formed an aspiring constituency closely tied to Rome’s non-senatorial elites. Shifting the focus then to the circumstances, particulars, and objectives of the lex Sulpicia de libertinorum suffragiis and factoring in both priors and posteriors, it will be argued that this law (associated with, though distinct from, the concurrent law on the suffrage of the newly enfranchised freeborn Latin and Italian allies) instead sought to enlist the critical support of the equestrian and first census /property class citizens, including the Italian domi nobiles , in order to ensure the passage of the highly divisive Sulpician bill transferring the lucrative command against Mithradates VI from a sitting consul (L. Cornelius Sulla) to a private citizen (C. Marius). 

Liberti and the Sulpician Laws of 88 BCE. A New Light on Freedmen Suffrage in the Roman Republic

La citoyenneté dégradée : une histoire de l'infamie à Rome : (312 av. J.-C.-96 apr. J.-C.)

Le spectacle du cens. Relecture du déroulement de la professio sous la République romaine

On qualifie généralement la citoyenneté romaine d’ouverte, suivant une conception binaire (citoyens/non-citoyens) qui conduit à oublier la multitude de statuts existants dans le monde romain entre le citoyen de plein droit et le non-citoyen (citoyens ingénus, citoyens affranchis, Latins Juniens, dediticii, citoyens sans suffrage). À cela s’ajoutait le classement des citoyens au sein de la hiérarchie civique selon le principe d’égalité géométrique ajustant les droits aux devoirs. Les mauvais citoyens étaient assimilés aux citoyens pauvres et dégradés dans cette hiérarchie de sorte que leurs capacités judiciaires et politiques étaient amoindries. La société romaine présentait donc un long dégradé de statuts, y compris au sein de la communauté civique. Ce classement, dont l’une des principales fonctions était de légitimer la classe dirigeante, entretenait l’idée d’une citoyenneté comme dignitas qu’il fallait mériter sous peine de se voir reléguer parmi ceux dont la participation à la vie civique était jugée dispensable. 

La citoyenneté comme dignitas en droit romain : (dé)-classer et/ou exclure ?

Parmi les œuvres juridiques léguées par l’Antiquité romaine, l’Enchiridion de Sextus Pomponius occupe une place à part, à la fois parce que c’est une des rares œuvres à nous être parvenues assez complète, mais aussi par sa nature très originale qui lui a valu sa place en tête du Digeste. Cet article se propose de revenir sur les interprétations et éditions de ce texte depuis l’époque moderne pour montrer qu’il a fait l’objet de lectures très contrastées, et pour attirer l’attention sur tout l’intérêt qu’il y aurait à en proposer une édition française commentée. 

L'Enchiridion de Sextus Pomponius, heurs et malheurs d’un manuel juridique antique

David Graeber et David Wengrow, Au commencement était… Une nouvelle histoire de l’humanité

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La citoyenneté dégradée : une histoire de l'infamie à Rome : (312 av. J.-C.-96 apr. J.-C.)

Le spectacle du cens. Relecture du déroulement de la professio sous la République romaine

La citoyenneté comme dignitas en droit romain : (dé)-classer et/ou exclure ?

L'Enchiridion de Sextus Pomponius, heurs et malheurs d’un manuel juridique antique

David Graeber et David Wengrow, Au commencement était… Une nouvelle histoire de l’humanité