Aventine Secession

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The Aventine Secession was a famous episode in early Roman history when the plebeians withdrew from the city to the Aventine Hill to protest patrician dominance and demand political rights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf event in ancient Rome
plebeian secession
political protest
cause conflict between patricians and plebeians
plebeian demand for political rights
social inequality in the Roman Republic
chronology early Roman Republic
conflictType class struggle
social conflict
describedBySource Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Livy
describedIn ancient Roman historiography
goal access to political institutions
legal safeguards for plebeians
protection from arbitrary patrician power
hasEffect concessions by the patrician elite
creation of the office of tribune of the plebs
institutionalization of plebeian assembly
recognition of plebeian political representation
reduction of immediate social tensions between orders
strengthening of plebeian collective power
hasLegacy model for later plebeian secessions
precedent for institutional compromise in Rome
location Aventine Hill
Rome
method collective withdrawal from the city
nonviolent mass protest
movementType collective bargaining by withdrawal
popular movement
opposedBy Roman Senate
patrician aristocracy
participant Roman patricians
Roman plebeians
politicalContext Conflict of the Orders
surface form: Struggle of the Orders
relatedConcept Roman constitutional history
Roman social order
plebeian council
tribune of the plebs
result establishment of plebeian magistracies
formal recognition of tribunes of the plebs
significance key episode in the development of Roman republican institutions
symbol of plebeian resistance to aristocratic dominance

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Aventine Hill associatedWith Aventine Secession
Matteotti crisis significantEvent Aventine Secession