Senatorial Cursus Honorum in the Period of the Republic and in the Early Empire. Selected Issues
Most commonly two typologies of senatorial careers are found in the literature on the subject and these are based on the following criteria: social origin and the type of the office held. In my opinion the career of every senator should be analyzed in three stages, determined by holding the office of the praetor and the consul: 1) before praetura; 2) from praetura to the consulship; 3) after the consulship. Each of the stages features separate dynamics and regularities, at each of them we are dealing with a senator at a different age, a different level of maturity and experience.