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...
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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...
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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...
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire (redirect from Fall of Rome)
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...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Imperial Rome)
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...
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Lucius Mummius Achaicus (category 2nd-century BC Roman consuls)
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...
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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...
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Herodes Atticus (category 2nd-century Roman consuls)
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...
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Geta (emperor) (category Imperial Roman consuls)
Severus by his second wife Julia Domna. He was born on 7 March 189 in either Rome or Mediolanum, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at...
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Numidia (section War with Rome)
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...
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Mappa (Roman) (category Culture of ancient Rome)
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...
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Gennadius Avienus (category 5th-century Roman consuls)
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...
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gens Quinctilia, also written Quintilia, was a patrician family at ancient Rome, dating from the earliest period of Roman history, and continuing well into...
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Vestal Virgin (section Outside Rome)
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)....
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Smite. Mercury portrait on a bronze semuncia (215–211 BC) Mercury-Hermes, antique fresco from Pompeii Bronze figurine of Mercury with three phalluses, with...
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Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (redirect from St. John in Lateran (Rome))
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...
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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...
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Roman aqueduct (redirect from Aqueducts in Rome)
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...
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Caracalla (category Imperial Roman consuls)
Meckler: Caracalla and his late-antique biographer, Ann Arbor, 1994, pp. 152-156. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2009). How Rome Fell: death of a superpower. New...
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Temple of Saturn (category Rome R. X Campitelli)
of the Roman Kingdom under Tarquinius Superbus. Its inauguration by the consul Titus Larcius took place in the early years of the Republic, making it the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Antoninus Pius (category 2nd-century Roman consuls)
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]...
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Nero Claudius Drusus (category Imperial Roman consuls)
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...
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Marcus Aurelius (category 2nd-century Roman consuls)
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...
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Chronograph of 354 (category Culture of ancient Rome)
– 2 miniatures (the last in the MS) Part 8: list (fasti) of the Roman consuls to AD 354 At AD 1: "Hoc cons. dominus Iesus Christus natus est VIII kal...
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Plebeians (category Social classes in ancient Rome)
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...
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Acilius Aviola - consul in 239 Manius Acilius Glabrio - consul and general during the Roman-Seleucid War Manius Acilius Glabrio - consul and general during...
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