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...

rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. It included territories in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia and was...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

Van Dam, R., 2016. "Modelling the Supply of Wood Fuel in Ancient Rome". Late Antique Archaeology, 12(1), pp.148-159. Most wood-fuel would have come from...

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...

serve as a consul for the Roman Empire in 92 CE. Celsus, a Romanized Greek native of Sardis or Ephesus who belonged to a family of priests of Rome, was one...

(often referred to simply as Augustus) in 27 BC, marking his accession as Rome's first emperor. On his death, it became an official title of his successor...

dans le monde antique, Rome, École française, 295–311. 1985: La déposition du consul de 88, Q. Pompeius Rufus, et la première prise de Rome par les armes...

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...

Marriage in ancient Rome (conubium) was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances. The...

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...