This basically a bit of rant really, and with a lack of forum I thought the forum I usually write on, might be a good start.
Populares vs optimates
In Imperator, you have the populares and the optimates. This is quite interesting given that this division in the senate are more of thing around the Gracchi brothers and the social war around the turn of the century around 100 BC, not right before Rome started growing on italian peninsula in the late 4th century BC. Of course you also have families which is perhaps a bit more accurate given that Rome was a aristocratic republic.
The cursus honorum
In Total War: Rome II you mainly have families as the political entities, throughout the game which is a bit odd. But you also have a cursus honorum, which I also see people even talking about in this forum in regards to imperator as it´s was a standrad operating procedure of the republic that you had to walse through every political office before coming consul. It´s more of a stat buff thing in the game btw. That Rome II has this sort of thing in at the starting point in 272 BC is strange given that this is something Rome's first dictator for life, Lucius Cornelius Sulla implemented 82-80 BC in order to create restraints for the likes of Pompey and Crassus. Also, these offices were appointed by elections to, so basically having a term for life in an office and only consuls are elected, as in Imperator i VERY strange.
Nobiles, Patrici, Equites etc
Some modders (Divide et Impera) have taken the liberty of replacing families in Rome II with it´s cast system, which also is sort of strange. I haven´t read this much about how these classes interacted in politics, but it´s not what is lifted in the literature. There the talk is mainly of peoples assemblies, the senate etc interacts.
People's assemblies anyone?
What most games miss out on, is that the transfer to senatorial control of the republic, and later on to strong man rule happened gradually. From the beginning, after the ousting of the king, the formal role of the senate was basically consult the consuls. But legislative powers resided in peoples assemblies, very much closely related to those of the greek politea or democracies.. This would have been the case in 304 BC as well as in 272 BC.
Populares vs optimates
In Imperator, you have the populares and the optimates. This is quite interesting given that this division in the senate are more of thing around the Gracchi brothers and the social war around the turn of the century around 100 BC, not right before Rome started growing on italian peninsula in the late 4th century BC. Of course you also have families which is perhaps a bit more accurate given that Rome was a aristocratic republic.
The cursus honorum
In Total War: Rome II you mainly have families as the political entities, throughout the game which is a bit odd. But you also have a cursus honorum, which I also see people even talking about in this forum in regards to imperator as it´s was a standrad operating procedure of the republic that you had to walse through every political office before coming consul. It´s more of a stat buff thing in the game btw. That Rome II has this sort of thing in at the starting point in 272 BC is strange given that this is something Rome's first dictator for life, Lucius Cornelius Sulla implemented 82-80 BC in order to create restraints for the likes of Pompey and Crassus. Also, these offices were appointed by elections to, so basically having a term for life in an office and only consuls are elected, as in Imperator i VERY strange.
Nobiles, Patrici, Equites etc
Some modders (Divide et Impera) have taken the liberty of replacing families in Rome II with it´s cast system, which also is sort of strange. I haven´t read this much about how these classes interacted in politics, but it´s not what is lifted in the literature. There the talk is mainly of peoples assemblies, the senate etc interacts.
People's assemblies anyone?
What most games miss out on, is that the transfer to senatorial control of the republic, and later on to strong man rule happened gradually. From the beginning, after the ousting of the king, the formal role of the senate was basically consult the consuls. But legislative powers resided in peoples assemblies, very much closely related to those of the greek politea or democracies.. This would have been the case in 304 BC as well as in 272 BC.
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