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Episode 5: The City Divided
SOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources:
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book II, Chapters 23–33 — the core narrative of the First Secession, including the Menenius Agrippa episode
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books VI–VII — gives a more detailed account of the negotiations than Livy; attributes a larger role to Sicinius
- Cicero, De Re Publica, Book II.56–63; De Legibus, Book III — discusses the tribunate and its constitutional role
- Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus — overlapping events; the most vivid literary treatment of patrician-plebeian tensions in the immediate post-Secession years
- Appian, Civil Wars, Book I — later perspective; useful background on debt and agrarian crisis as a recurring structural problem
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 10–11 — essential treatment of the Secession and the creation of the tribunate
- Kurt Raaflaub (ed.), Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (Blackwell, 2005) — key collection; the essays by Raaflaub, Cornell, and Richard Mitchell debate the origins of the plebs and the historicity of the Secession in detail
- Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford University Press, 1999), Chapters 7–8 — the fullest modern treatment of the tribunate and its powers
- Claude Nicolet, The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome (University of California Press, 1980) — on the social context of the early Republic
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapters 6–7
- David Stockton, The Gracchi (Oxford University Press, 1979), Chapter 1 — superb background on tribunician power and its evolution across the Republic
- Robert A. Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Republican Politics (Beck, 1983) — on the legal dimensions of tribunician intercessio
- Robert Ogilvie, A Commentary on Livy, Books 1–5 (Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 311–316 — discusses the Greek parallels and the fable's literary origins
- G.E.R. Lloyd, Methods and Problems in Greek Science (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Chapter 11 — on the body politic metaphor in ancient thought
- Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy (University of California Press, 1973) — foundational
- Peter Garnsey, Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
- Cornell, Beginnings, pp. 280–283, 333–336
- Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Jane Gardner, Women in Roman Law and Society (Indiana University Press, 1986)
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By Hugo PrudentiusSOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources:
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book II, Chapters 23–33 — the core narrative of the First Secession, including the Menenius Agrippa episode
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books VI–VII — gives a more detailed account of the negotiations than Livy; attributes a larger role to Sicinius
- Cicero, De Re Publica, Book II.56–63; De Legibus, Book III — discusses the tribunate and its constitutional role
- Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus — overlapping events; the most vivid literary treatment of patrician-plebeian tensions in the immediate post-Secession years
- Appian, Civil Wars, Book I — later perspective; useful background on debt and agrarian crisis as a recurring structural problem
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 10–11 — essential treatment of the Secession and the creation of the tribunate
- Kurt Raaflaub (ed.), Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (Blackwell, 2005) — key collection; the essays by Raaflaub, Cornell, and Richard Mitchell debate the origins of the plebs and the historicity of the Secession in detail
- Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford University Press, 1999), Chapters 7–8 — the fullest modern treatment of the tribunate and its powers
- Claude Nicolet, The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome (University of California Press, 1980) — on the social context of the early Republic
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapters 6–7
- David Stockton, The Gracchi (Oxford University Press, 1979), Chapter 1 — superb background on tribunician power and its evolution across the Republic
- Robert A. Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Republican Politics (Beck, 1983) — on the legal dimensions of tribunician intercessio
- Robert Ogilvie, A Commentary on Livy, Books 1–5 (Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 311–316 — discusses the Greek parallels and the fable's literary origins
- G.E.R. Lloyd, Methods and Problems in Greek Science (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Chapter 11 — on the body politic metaphor in ancient thought
- Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy (University of California Press, 1973) — foundational
- Peter Garnsey, Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
- Cornell, Beginnings, pp. 280–283, 333–336
- Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Jane Gardner, Women in Roman Law and Society (Indiana University Press, 1986)