Professor Erdman’s second recent article,“Voting Procedure at Late Republican Legislative Assemblies,” is now available in open access in Klio. You can read it here:
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In this article, Erdman reexamines how Romans voted in legislative assemblies. The traditional model holds that Rome's voting units, the thirty-five tribes, voted sequentially, one at a time. Erdman demonstrates that this widely accepted view is only a hypothesis and is not firmly supported by explicit evidence. By reassessing the sources, he argues that multiple tribes may have voted simultaneously—either in groups or all at once—allowing for faster and broader participation. This reinterpretation helps explain how large crowds could take part in voting processes that appear, in the ancient evidence, to have been completed relatively quickly.

Together, these publications reflect Professor Erdman’s innovative approach to long-standing questions in Roman history and contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations about political practice in the late Republic.