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    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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    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)
    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Fasces (section Rome)
    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;...
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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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    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...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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    Boethius (redirect from Boethius of rome)
    Boethius (/boʊˈiːθiəs/; Latin: Boetius; c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early...
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    Marriage in ancient Rome (conubium) was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances. Roman...
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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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