Download or read book Rank and Participation in the Republican Senate written by Francis X. Ryan and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the status, privileges, and functions of each division of the republican Roman senate: the consular grade (especially the principes senatus) and the junior senators (especially the tribunician and quaestorian grades). The author's analysis focuses on the level of participation in senate debates by each rank of senator.