Class traits

[soibean]

Hello,
I noticed that during a Romani game that as family members governed/conquered they moved up in rank from plebian to equites to patrician (sorry I cant remember the spelling for those). I was wondering if you implemented this within the Koinen Hellenon as well. Im reading an older book by Peter Fredet entitled Ancient History and it goes into detail about the different classes that Spartans and Athenians had within their societies. Currently the time period is around 500bc so I dont know if they still applied at the time of EB but I was just curious as to whether or not youd find this helpful or if you already had it

[pezhetairoi]

I think it wouldn't apply because then you'd have to restrict it to only Athenians and Spartans, and the others wouldn't have this hierarchy, not to mention if the Spartan and Athenian hierarchies are separate, then you'd have to have the script discern between the two ethnicities, or more accurately, define the two ethnicities first.

Not to mention the time period, too. I doubt they still applied at that time.

[Hax]

Was it even possible for a Plebeian to become a Patrician? O_O

[TWFanatic]

Yes. Once you were elected to the office of Praetor, you were officially henceforward a patrician and your descendants were allowed to show busts of you in their homes.

[russia almighty]

I've wondered why the Roman's didn't give the option for extremely rich Plebian's to buy the title of Patrican .


Unless it did happen .

[Tellos Athenaios]

For one thing: they'd had "Social Wars" about this kind of thing. (EDIT: ^^ You should fix a typo, it's utterly confusing ambiguous this way.)

For another politics in general and elections in particular was about buying support - it required a substantial investment in the local charitable organistations. Mind you, for the winner it would be a very good investment: it often was rewarded with very lucrative interest rates.