Showing posts with label romans. Show all posts
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Friday, 25 November 2011

The Cursus Honorum

If students have the Polybius text, in book 6, pages 312-314, different levels of office are described.  compare these, if possible, with Mr Blaney's political hierarchy.

There is a  Wikipedia page describing the Cursus Honorum, the political hierarchy in Rome, but I think it is a later formalization of rules that didn't exist during the Punic Wars.

See also, this chart.


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And this one: