La première ʺcrise de la detteʺ à Rome (495-493 avant J.-C.) : de la constitution civique à la constitution fédérale

Meunier, Nicolas
(2022) Dette et politique — ISBN: [978-2-84867-869-6], p. 89-107, published

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(en) The interpretation of the crisis caused by the so-called nexi in 495 B.C. deserves to be fundamentally revised. Far from being restricted to a social or economic problem, it had a determining impact on the institutional, military, and social organisation not only of Rome, but also of the Latin League. The nexi thus appear to have been, not debt-slaves, but clan dependents, and their so-called "debts" a gentilicial dues. They would have joined the plebs only after the first secession. And it is the reform of the federal army that seems to have been at the origin of these mutations.
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Meunier, N. (2022). La première ʺcrise de la detteʺ à Rome (495-493 avant J.-C.) : de la constitution civique à la constitution fédérale. In Stavroula Kefallonitis (ed.), Dette et politique (p. p. 89-107). Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/228457