Numa Pompilius (Classical Latin: [ˈnʊma pɔmˈpɪliʊs]; c. 753–672 BC; reigned 715–672 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus after...
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role in the early history of Rome as a divine consort and counselor of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to whom she imparted laws and rituals pertaining...
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Jupiter (god) (section Numa Pompilius)
dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion...
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Rome's first pontifex maximus Numa Marcius) and Pompilia (daughter of Numa Pompilius). Ancus Marcius was thus the grandson of Numa and therefore a Sabine. According...
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(h)ɔsˈtiːliʊs]; r. 672–640 BC) was the legendary third king of Rome. He succeeded Numa Pompilius and was succeeded by Ancus Marcius. Unlike his predecessor, Tullus was...
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Titus Tatius (redirect from Tatia (wife of Numa Pompilius))
"Seven Kings of Rome". Tatius had one daughter, Tatia, who married Numa Pompilius (Romulus' successor), and one son, who was the ancestor of the patrician...
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philosopher Numa Pompilius (753–673 BC), second king of Rome Numa S. Trivas (fl. 1899–1949), Russian-American art historian and collector Numa Sadoul (born...
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Roman Kingdom (section Numa Pompilius)
and was believed to have been the best augur of all. Likewise, King Numa Pompilius instituted the pontiffs and through them developed the foundations of...
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Pompilia gens (redirect from Pompilia (daughter of Numa Pompilius))
illustrious of the Pompilii at Rome was Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. By all accounts, Pompilius was a Sabine, renowned for his wisdom, and...
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institutions; the death or apotheosis of Romulus, and the succession of Numa Pompilius.[citation needed] According to Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus were...
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have derived from the Spartans. Plutarch also mentions, in the Life of Numa Pompilius, "Sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians"...
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Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams (February 17, 1885 – August 29, 1940) was a dean at Howard University College of Medicine from 1929 until his death, in 1940...
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reign of the second King of Rome — Numa Pompilius. c. 715 BC—Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends. 713 BC—Numa Pompilius, King of Rome, reforms the Roman...
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Lucretia gens (redirect from Lucretia (wife of Numa Pompilius))
Lucretii were one of the most ancient gentes, and the second wife of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, was named Lucretia. The first of the Lucretii...
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takes into account that the college was established by Sabine king Numa Pompilius and the institution is Italic: the expressions pontis and pomperias...
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Numa Marcius, son of Marcus, was the first Pontifex Maximus of Ancient Rome. He was appointed by the King Numa Pompilius who assigned to him the entire...
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Mart., the 6th day before the March kalends.) Romulus's successor Numa Pompilius was then usually credited with a revised calendar that divided winter...
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Lives, Romulus Livy, ab urbe condita libri, I Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Numa Married his daughter, Hostilia Plutach's Parallel Lives vol. 1 p. 379 Livy...
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accepted versions of Rome's beginnings the city's legendary second king, Numa Pompilius, built its first Temple of Vesta, appointed its first pair of Vestals...
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like a mouse"). Plutarch, who describes Tacita as a Muse, states that Numa Pompilius credited Tacita for his oracular insight and taught the Romans to worship...
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incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, contains unique information about the early Roman...
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Leges regiae (section Numa Pompilius)
of the elders or Senate of the Roman Kingdom. After an interregnum Numa Pompilius succeeded to Romulus: as it will happen for each of his successors an...
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ancient Rome. The gens was of great antiquity, and claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. Its members held the highest offices of the...
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when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created...
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of the Sabine women by Romulus's men, and in the Sabine ethnicity of Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, to whom are attributed many of Rome's religious...
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in ancient Roman religion, supposed to have been introduced by King Numa Pompilius. They were twelve patrician youths dressed as archaic warriors with...
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Roman culture, and the growth of Rome through conflict and alliance. Numa Pompilius, the Sabine second king of Rome who consorted with the nymph Egeria...
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attributed to the Sabine Numa Pompilius, in the eleventh year of his reign as the second king of Rome. The combined presence of Numa and the flamen Quirinalis...
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Roman calendar, before Ianuarius and Februarius were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year (the year...
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with omens and auspices. Plutarch in his Parallel Lives mention that Numa Pompilius made January the first month in the calendar instead of March by the...
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