Abstract
Political assemblies were the focus of Roman political life and also lie at the centre of recent debates about the nature of Roman political culture. The principal aim of prosopography had been to analyse the individuals and groups within the Roman ruling class that supposedly controlled the state by means of vertical ties of social obligation. In the Roman Republic there were different kinds of assembly, performing a variety of different functions. There were three different kinds of comitia in the Roman Republic, distinguished by the voting units into which they were divided and each possessing its own functions, organisation and procedure. The three types were the comitia curiata , the comitia centuriata , and the comitia tribute . The compliant attitude of Roman assemblies can be seen as an aspect of their essentially passive nature. They could only meet if summoned by a magistrate or tribune and were denied any right of initiative or freedom of speech.
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