Episode 76 – Plebeian Struggles and the Vestal Oppia

The Partial Historians · Nov 21, 2017 · 39m

We continue recording in the library, so advance apologies for potential moments of poor editing!

Episode 76 – Plebeian Struggles and the Vestal Oppia

We return to the podcast fray launching into the elections of c. 483 BCE. The conflict between patrician and plebeian sets the tone. And it turns out that our sources don’t agree right from the start! One of the consuls this year is definitely Marcus Fabius Vibulanus and the identity of the other is a little more of a mysterious Lucius (Valerius? Verus? Publicola? Potitus?)

By this stage the struggles between the patricians and…