Abstract:

The epigraphic corpus of Tusculum in the middle republic time is key for knowledge of the social order from that period, in addition to that of Praeneste. This society was shaped by a sort of families that were preserved across the centuries. On the other hand, literary sources record the privileged condition of Tusculum regarding other Latial towns, by its antiquity and the status of its primatus, among these the first plebeian people in accomplishing the highest Roman magistracies from the beginning of Republic. Public recreation of this memorable past is tracked through epigraphy from late Republican period, that allow connecting that information from literature with the epigraphic record in which is well-preserved the name of the most ancient families in Latium vetus.