The Conflict of the Orders, also Struggle of the Orders, was a political struggle between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the...

significant in the Roman Kingdom and the early Republic, but its relevance waned after the Conflict of the Orders (494 BC to 287 BC). By the time of the late Republic...

enrolled into the curiae and the tribes; they also served in the army and also in army officer roles as tribuni militum. The Conflict of the Orders (Latin:...

at the expense of the majority, the plebeians. The conflicts between the patricians and plebeians came to be known as the Conflict of the Orders. By...

senate, or any other assembly disregarded the orders of a tribune, he could "interpose the sacrosanctity of his person" to prevent such action. Even a...

such as the Conflict of the Orders and Spartacus, among others. In his History, Thucydides describes a civil war in the city of Corcyra between the pro-Athens...

period of patrician domination, the Conflict of the Orders eventually granted plebeian citizens equal political rights, while also creating the tribunate...

and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. At home, during the Conflict of the Orders, the patricians, the closed oligarchic elite, came into conflict with the more...

of the first phase of the struggle between the plebeians and the patricians (the Conflict of the Orders). The next major development in this conflict...

the key events in the Conflict of the Orders in the years leading up to the decemvirate. A scion of the noble patrician house of the Quinctii, Caeso was...