The Plebeian Games (Latin Ludi Plebeii) were an ancient Roman religious festival held November 4–17.
Wiseman has suggested that they were created by the plebs as an assertion of their own identity, perhaps as early as the 5th or 4th century BC.
[6] The Ludi Plebeii were presented by the plebeian aediles and celebrated plebeian political liberty, but tradition varied as to freedom from what: either the tyranny of the Tarquins in the Regal period, or the dominance of the patricians, the hereditary ruling class of early Republican Rome (see "Conflict of the Orders").
[7] According to one ancient source, the games were held in the Circus Flaminius, which was associated with the common people of Rome (plebs).
[4] Livy notes that the ludi had to be repeated three times in 216 BC, owing to a vitium (ritual fault) that disrupted the correct performance of events.