the reigns of their kings, it became customary at Rome to date events by the names of the consuls in office when the events occurred, rather than (for...

Rodocanachi (1920). Les monuments antiques de Rome encore existants: les ponts, les murs, les voies, les aqueducs, les enceintes de Rome, les palais, les temples...

returned to Rome while Sulla was campaigning in Greece. He seized power along with the consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed the other consul, Gnaeus Octavius...

worsened further in the Late Antique Little Ice Age that may have directly contributed to the variety of factors that brought Rome down. The Roman Empire was...

military commanders. It was governed by annually elected magistrates (Roman consuls above all) in conjunction with the Senate. The 1st century BC was a time...

of Titus Livius. Otherwise, his cognomen is only attested to in a late antique list of fasti based on the Fasti Capitolini and in all other sources, only...

general. He was consul in the year 146 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus. Mummius was the first of his family to rise to the rank of consul thereby making...

prince allied with Rome, the Romans dispatched an army of 80,000 men to Africa. In 146 BC Carthage was obliterated by the armies of Consul Scipio Aemilianus...

Herodes Atticus consul in 143. Herodes Atticus and Regilla controlled a large tract around the third mile of the Appian Way outside Rome, which was known...

Smite. Mercury portrait on a bronze semuncia (215–211 BC) Mercury-Hermes, antique fresco from Pompeii Bronze figurine of Mercury with three phalluses, with...

Churches in Rome and in the World, and commonly known as the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran) is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Rome in the...

gens Quinctilia, also written Quintilia, was a patrician family at ancient Rome, dating from the earliest period of Roman history, and continuing well into...

cité antique. Actes de la table ronde de Rome (6–7 April 1978). Rome: École Française de Rome, 1981. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 48)....

who had already had a distinguished career as consul, general and provincial governor, served both as consul and as curator aquarum, under the emperor Nerva...

dispatched in 88 BC to order Lucius Cornelius Sulla, then consul, to desist from his march on Rome and had their insignia of office defaced and destroyed;...

decorated with rich relief sculpture. A consular diptych was commissioned by a consul ordinarius to mark his entry to that post, and was distributed as a commemorative...

born), and afterwards Drusus accompanied them back to Rome. Drusus easily won election as consul for the year 9 BC. Once more he left the city before assuming...

450–460s) was an influential politician of the Western Roman Empire. He was consul in 450, alongside Valentinian III. In 452, he was an envoy to Attila; together...

Atticus restored his family's influence, becoming a senator and suffect consul in 133. His son, Herodes Atticus, erected a statue of him at the Nymphaeum...

In Ancient Rome, a mappa was a white cloth or napkin used by the presiding magistrate (a consul, a praetor, or sometimes a dictator) to signal the start...

that Rome was ruled by two emperors. In spite of their nominal equality, Marcus held more auctoritas, or 'authority', than Lucius. He had been consul once...

Canada), he was appointed as Consul General to Boston and New England from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he served as Consul General to Casablanca, Morocco...

tribunician power for the seventh time, imperator for the fourteenth time, consul for the sixth time, and designated for the seventh, father of the fatherland...

The gens Herennia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned among the Italian nobility during the Samnite Wars, and...

Academy of Design in New York City and in Rome, Italy. He expatriated to Rome in 1841 when he was appointed U.S. Consul to Ancona, in the Papal States. Freeman...

In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other...

(509 BC), the Decimvirates (451–450 BC), the Gallic sack of Rome (390 BC), and the first plebeian consul (366 BC) are derived. The chronology consists of an ordered...

corporels et peine de mort dans le monde antique. Table ronde de Rome (9–11 novembre 1982) Rome : École Française de Rome, 1984. pp. 241–293. Available at [3]...

ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin. It is the period during which ancient Greece and ancient Rome flourished...

Caesar and his legion in Italy forced Pompey, the consuls, and a large part of the senate to flee Rome. Caesar's victory in the subsequent civil war ensured...