The Jobs in the Republic and How They Worked

             There were many different jobs in the Roman Republic. In this essay, I am going to inform you of all I know about each of these places in government. I will also tell you how many people were in each place.

            First is a Senator, and there were one hundred (100) of them. By looking at the name, it is pretty obvious that they work in the Senate. Senators used to work with the king before the Republic, but when everybody was through with kings, they acted as the king, Making the laws and taking care of the small kingdom.

            Next was the Consul. There were always two Consuls, and they were elected every year. Their place was the highest, and they were above the Senate. They took care of the Senate and the army. If you were a Consul, you could become anything else in government besides a Consul again.

            If you were a Praetor, you would be a judge. This is an example of how you had to be a Consul first, before you could be a Praetor. Also, there were always eight Praetors.

           Now I will talk about the job of an Aedile.  An Aedile was one of four men who paid for and supervised trade and public buildings and building projects. The Aediles would also pay for the games (gladiator fights, animal fights, people being tortured and ripped apart by both people and animals, and foot and chariot racing). As you can see, this would be a very expensive job.

            A Quaestore was one of 20 financial advisors. This means that if someone in Rome (besides the people in government) needed help with something that has to do with money they would go to the Quaestores for help. This position was unique because you didn’t have to be Consul before you were a Quaestore.

          Then there was a Tribune and a Dictator. The Tribune was a man or men that was created to represent the commoners, who were a band of people who repelled against the Republic. A Dictator was a person from the Senate or the army that was chosen to have complete authority for six months. However, a Dictator was only present when it was an emergency, for example, when there was an unexpected attack from a nearby civilization.

           Altogether, these were the seven positions in the Roman Republic. As you can see, they worked very well for a while, keeping the small kingdom (which later turned into an empire) well throughout time. I hope you want to learn more about Rome and how it formed, and I hope this essay helped you with that.