This paper starts analyzing the élite of the factio popularis at the time of the Gracchi: they were nobiles only. In the next generation, that of Saturninus, we find a few nobiles among his followers, but a great attention was deserved to the needs of the Marian army. Then, the factio Cinnana was constituted by a majority of new citizens of Italian origin. After Sulla the popularis élite survived in Spain under Sertorius. At last Caesar provided it with its revenge and organized his government around a group of amici, within which there were some domi nobiles, a lot of Italians (above all Etruscans) and already some equites ex provinciis.
Zecchini, G., L’evoluzione della élite popularis dai Gracchi a Cesare, in Caballos Rufino, A. (ed.), Del municipio a la corte. La renovación de las élites romanas, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla 2012: 19- 35 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/35049]
L’evoluzione della élite popularis dai Gracchi a Cesare
Zecchini, Giuseppe
2012
Abstract
This paper starts analyzing the élite of the factio popularis at the time of the Gracchi: they were nobiles only. In the next generation, that of Saturninus, we find a few nobiles among his followers, but a great attention was deserved to the needs of the Marian army. Then, the factio Cinnana was constituted by a majority of new citizens of Italian origin. After Sulla the popularis élite survived in Spain under Sertorius. At last Caesar provided it with its revenge and organized his government around a group of amici, within which there were some domi nobiles, a lot of Italians (above all Etruscans) and already some equites ex provinciis.
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