• Thumbnail for Tacitus
    typical of his mature historical works. The Dialogus is dedicated to Fabius Iustus, a consul in 102 AD. Tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose...
    42 KB (5,289 words) - 15:09, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adoption in ancient Rome
    n. 44. Buckland 1908, pp. 77 (n. 3), 79. Berger 1953, p. 473 on filius iustus (= filius legitimus); p. 714 on spurius. Evans-Grubbs 1993, pp. 128, 149...
    29 KB (3,625 words) - 10:44, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Constantine the Great
    father, is not known. His praenomen is variously given as Lucius, Marcus and Gaius. Whatever the case, praenomina had already disappeared from most public...
    176 KB (20,497 words) - 00:49, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Slavery in ancient Rome
    77 (n. 3), 79; Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law, s.v. filius iustus (= filius legitimus), p. 473, and spurius, p. 714. Susan Treggiari, "Contubernales...
    332 KB (46,354 words) - 11:00, 21 January 2025
  • ISBN 978-884675236-9. M. von Albrecht 1997, p. 429 Brown, Virginia (1976). "Caesar, Gaius Julius" (PDF). Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. 3: 93. Retrieved...
    452 KB (24,617 words) - 10:03, 30 December 2024