Il senato tra la città di Romolo e la città di Costantino

The emergence of a second Senate on the banks of the Bosporus represents one of the most impactful outcomes of the Constantinian revolution. In this paper, sources related to the establishment of the Eastern Senate are reviewed. From this reading it can be deduced that the Constantinople assembly took on a supra-municipal and imperial physiognomy as early as the end of Constantine’s reign. The transfer of the first Western senators to the East can also be dated to this phase; it was a phenomenon that took place gradually and not by force of a rule (usually placed just before 357). The last part of the article focuses on the social shape of the two senates and the different aftermaths they experienced during the fifth century.