Talk:Equestrian (Roman)

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[edit] False information?

In the subject of the Equites, i am not too sure what to believe... here it says they are a middle class, in the texts and socials books i have searched it says they are a legion (consisting of 4300 soilders). i need some clarifacation of this for a project i am doing...

Yes this article is a mess. It's not that it has the wrong info (because the equites weren't very military during the empire), but it has a lot of holes. For example, it says that during the early republic, the equites were mostly military, but during the intervening centuries, they changed. However, it doesn't say exactly what they became. I always read that they were the roman capitalists, so I guess the middle class statement is correct...216.252.81.51 (talk) 03:17, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Until the reforms of Gaius Marius, all Roman classes other than the proletarii, where egligible for military service. Roman armies where militia armies at that time. The equites class formed the cavalry section of the roman army since they where the only ones to be able to afford horses. After the reforms of Gaius Marius, a proffessional army was raised and this ended the need for the equestrian classes to enter military service.

Therefore: they always where the middle class, both socially and economically, before Gaius Marius they also supplied the men for the equites section of the army. There is also something else that is wrong with the article. The equites where not between plebs and patricians, they were usually just plebs. The equestrian social class is based on property, the plebeian class is based on descent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.154.232.138 (talk) 14:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced

This article has no sources. Per WP:PROVEIT, "If no reliable, third-party sources can be found for an article topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." ...thus, it's basically a candidate for deletion. This needs to be rectified ASAP by those who wrote the article originally. RobertM525 (talk) 20:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)