title: The Making of Plebeian Secessions in Roman Historiography
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metadata.value: Koptev, Aleksandr V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:41:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:41:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Koptev A. V. The Making of Plebeian Secessions in Roman Historiography. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, pp. 823–844.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14917
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The early two centuries of the Roman Republic were filled with conflicts between the patricians
  and the plebeians. From 494 BC onwards, the Roman plebs used several social crises
  to force the patrician Senate to satisfy their demands, withdrawing from Rome to a sacred
  mount. The secessio plebis has been considered in scholarship a revolutionary movement of
  the people. However, the dissonance between the objectives declared by the plebeians and the
  obtained results of the secessions suggests that the idea of secessio may have originated in the
  later republican historiography. The mons sacer to which the plebeians temporary resettled
  is identified with the Alban Mount rather than with an unknown mountain in the Sabine
  country. A prototype of the plebeian withdrawal from Rome was the annual celebration of the
  Feriae Latinae, during which newly elected consuls accompanied by soldiers and large masses
  of people visited the sanctuaries of Jupiter on the Alban Mount. The pontifical chronicles also
  recorded withdrawals of plebeians for the establishment of a new settlement or a tribe. The
  foundation of a tribe or a colony in Latium required a consultation with Jupiter Latiaris on the
  Alban Mount, but the same act outside Latium did not need an approval of the deity. That was
  why the last, failed, secession is recorded as occurring on the Janiculum, apparently, the site
  where Roman people resettling to a new northern colony gathered in 287 BC. Roman historians
  used the evidence for archaic customs to sustain the thesis of the Struggle of the Orders
  in the early Republic.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: secessio
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tribunate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consulship
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: plebeians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patricians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman Republic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mons sacer
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Making of Plebeian Secessions in Roman Historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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