Who were the "Tribuni Militum Consulari Potestate"?

• Autores: R. Ross Holloway
• Localización: Antiquité classique, ISSN 0770-2817, Nº. 77, 2008, págs. 107-125
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article argues that the colleges of Tribuni Militum Consulari Potestate, which in the surviving histories of the early Roman Republic largely replaced the consulship during the period 444 to 367 B.C., are inventions of the Roman annalists. The members of these colleges were leaders of private war bands dignified by the title tribuni militum, whose commands, the annalists reasoned, gave them consular powers. The sources of this information were family traditions and especially funeral eulogies. In the development of the argument examination is given to the problem of the pontifical Annales Maximi, which, as the Elder Cato made clear, had no value as a source of military or political history. The conclusion is also reached that the Romans derived dates for the early Republic from synchronisms with events in the Greek world.