been a dictator appointed for the occasion. One argument of this is the siege of Veii: for nine years of siege, Rome did not resort to a dictator, until...

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a polity. The word originated as the...

BC). Dictator follows the first novel Imperium (2006) and the second novel Lustrum (2009). It is both a biography of Cicero and a tapestry of Rome in the...

Dictator perpetuo (English: "dictator in perpetuity"), also called dictator in perpetuum, was the office held by Julius Caesar just before the end of...

outside Rome itself. After the war the victorious Sulla made himself dictator of the Roman Republic. Sulla had achieved temporary control of Rome and Marius's...

When the dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city. The magister equitum, like the dictator, had unchallengeable...

Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma, pronounced [ˈroːma] ) is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of...

dictator, and they are facilitated through an inner circle of elites that includes advisers, generals, and other high-ranking officials. The dictator...

elected by the people of Rome, and were each vested with a degree of power called "major powers" (maior potestas). Dictators had more "major powers" than...

of the state. When the dictator's term ended, constitutional government was restored. The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for...

defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role...

Brutus, Lucius T. J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome, chapter 10.4. Telford, L. (2014). Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Military...

of the state. When the dictator's term ended, constitutional government was restored. The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for...

Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a...

11, 2016. Season 2, "Master of Rome", premiered on July 27, 2018; it is a five-part story about the rise of Dictator Julius Caesar and the fall of the...

briefly perpetual dictator before being assassinated by a faction that opposed his concentration of power. This faction was driven from Rome and defeated at...

proscriptions against their enemies in Rome. The dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla had taken similar action to purge Rome of his opponents in 82 BC. The proscribed...

This is a list of characters from the HBO series Rome. The historical figures upon which certain characters are based are noted where appropriate. The...

of Rome and elsewhere, but it is usually accepted that Cincinnatus was a historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in 458 BC...

the latter rule was ignored. To symbolize that the dictator could enact capital punishment within Rome as well as without, his lictors did not remove the...

The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy (Italian: Il papa dittatore) is an unauthorized biography of Pope Francis authored by the Anglo–French...

dictators and magistri equitum known from ancient sources. In some cases the names or dates have been inferred by modern historians. Roman dictators were...

assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy. With different powers throughout its existence it lasted from the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally...

but later accepted the title dictator perpetuo, which in Latin translated either to dictator for life or as dictator for an undetermined term. Cicero...

Senones withdrew from Rome. Brennus was defeated by the dictator Furius Camillus at Tusculum soon afterwards. After that, Rome hastily rebuilt its buildings...

Scicolone is the first wife of Romano Mussolini (son of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini), whom she married in 1962 and with whom she had two daughters:...

descriptions as a fallback decemviri – 10-man commission in the Roman Republic dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic dux – Roman title emperor –...

founding of Rome was a prehistoric event or process later greatly embellished by Roman historians and poets. Archaeological evidence indicates that Rome developed...

previous day. The civil war ultimately led to Caesar's becoming dictator for life (dictator perpetuo). Caesar had been appointed to a governorship over a...