Consular Tribunes, and Plebeian Tribunes. I will cover all of the important Tribunes. The main
Tribune I will be discussing is the Roman Tribune. The word Tribune comes from the word
Tribe. Today I will be discussing the Roman Tribune and their role in society. I will also be
discussing Why Marullus and Flavian are worried about Caesar. In this paper I will hit on some
important facts about the Roman Tribune and some of the other tribunes and why Flavian and
Marullus are so worried about Caesar.
I have organized my paper into six sections. The first portion of my essay discusses
information about an Roman Tribune and details covering the topic. …show more content…
The three original tribes were the Ramnes or Ramnenses, Tities or Titienses, and
the Luceres.
A little bit about the history of tribes is the word tribe means viewed, historically as a social
group existing before the development of, or outside of, states. Back in the old days, there were
tons of tribes, tribes with all different nationalities. There are not too many tribes now, as there
were back then. Some tribes characteristics are having a common territory, speaking a common
language, and practicing endogamy. Tribes are well known for Indians. A lot of Indians were in
tribes, back then. Some American Indian tribes were, Abnaki, Akimel O ‘Odham,
AlabamaCoushatta, Aleut, Apache, Apalachee, Arapaho, Arikara, and Assiniboin. All of these
tribes were different in their own way. They all did different things and had different beliefs than
one another. That is what makes tribes so unique, they all do special things in their own creative
way. A man named Stephen Corry, defined tribal people as “those which have followed ways of
life for many generations that are largely selfsufficient, and are clearly different from the
mainstream and dominant society”. …show more content…
Their role was to protect plebians from arrest and
punishment by patritian magistrates. They also had the right to gather assemblies of the plebs
where decisions and resolutions were made. Tribunes also had the right of “intercessio”, which is
the power of veto over any act of a magistrate. The first emperor of Rome, Augustus, although a
patrician and someone who could not serve as a tribune, took on tribunician power and between
36 and 23 BC, this was the foundation of his position. This was apart of Augustus’ creation of