Episode 124 – The Military Tribunes with Consular Power

The Partial Historians · Apr 7, 2022 · 36m

The role of the Military Tribune with Consular Power (tribuni militum consulari potestate) is very particular. It seems to have been created out of the need for a new way forward from the role of the consuls. In our previous episode we encountered them for the first time as part of a patrician plan to placate plebeian discontent in 445 BCE, but our ability to understand this period is complicated by a number of issues:

How much did annalist historians like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus understand about the early republic?

What sources were they able to consult to verify their research…