Conflict of the Orders

Political conflict in the Roman Republic, 500–287 BC Politics of the Roman Republic 509 – 27 BC Constitution and development Republican origins Sullan reforms Conflict of the Orders Augustan reforms Magistrates and officials Classical magistrates Censor Consul Praetor Aedile Plebeian tribune Quaestor Promagistrate Legate Extraordinary magistrates Interrex Dictator Magister equitum Triumvir Religious officials Rex sacrorum Pontifex maximus Flamines Pontifices Augures Epulones Quindecimviri Early magistrates Consular tribune Decemvir Junior positions Decemviri stlitibus judicandis Tresviri capitales Triumviri monetales Senate Princeps senatus Senatus consultum Senatus consultum ultimum Assemblies Curiate Centuriate Tribal Plebeian Elections Contiones Public law and norms Courts Iudicium populi Quaestio perpetua Concepts Auctoritas Collegiality Cursus honorum Imperium Ius Mos maiorum Potestas Provocatio Provincial administration Governor Province Other countries vte The Conflict of the Orders, also called Struggle of the Orders, was a class war between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC in which the pl