Optimates (/ˌɒptɪˈmeɪtiːz/, /ˈɒptɪmeɪts/; Latin for "best ones"; sg. optimas) and populares (/ˌpɒpjʊˈlɛəriːz, -jə-, -ˈleɪriːz/; Latin for "supporters...

conflict between optimates and populares, referring to conservative and reformist politicians, respectively. The Social War between Rome and its Italian allies...

(Classical Latin: [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and the Roman People"), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of...

advancing Roman troops and play off the political factions of the optimates and populares against one another in the Roman civil wars. Nevertheless, the...

Other narratives appear to represent popular or folkloric tradition; some of these remain inscrutable in purpose and meaning. Wiseman sums the whole as...

senatus List of Roman censors List of Roman governors of Britain Optimates Populares (also see Conflict of the Orders) Nobles Patricians Equites Plebs...

principate was characterised by the reign of a single emperor (princeps) and an effort on the part of the early emperors, at least, to preserve the illusion...

from and are part of the overall evolution of earlier Greek theatres. Much of the architectural influence on the Romans came from the Greeks, and theatre...

an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium. Roman records describe lictors as having existed since the Roman Kingdom, and may have originated...

performed speaking roles. Bassilla and Fabia Arete were, for example, two actresses known for their role of Charition in a popular folk comedy. There were certainly...

industries and trades, and one of the Dii Consentes. Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Athena. Mithras, god worshipped in the Roman empire; popular with...

popular wine-based Byzantine sauce), vinegar, black pepper, or oil, garum enhanced the flavor of a wide variety of dishes, including boiled veal and steamed...

for major and minor Roman deities of the Empire associated the imperial system and family with traditional Roman virtues and the divine will and may be considered...

a family consisting of individuals who shared the same nomen gentilicium and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of gens, identified...

conflict between the so-called optimates and populares. This view is criticised as uncritically accepting confusing and empty ancient political slogans...

per year, making it one of Italy's most popular tourist sites. It is part of a larger Vesuvius National Park and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO...

history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the...

encoded into them, were popular during the Renaissance era. The chronogram would be a phrase containing the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. By putting these...

mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans. One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore...

curule aedile and staged lavish games that won him further attention and popular support. He also restored the trophies won by Marius, and taken down by...

– officially recognised and widely used between the 10th and 18th centuries, commonly used in foreign relations and popular as a second language among...

commander and a lieutenant who could work together without trouble. This was established to avoid clashes of leadership like that of the consuls Varro and Paulus...

imperial ceremonies "left room for consensus and popular participation". Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace;...

by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced...

in the late Republic, with increasing conflict between the optimates and the populares, it is likely that the senate, trying to increase its control...

cement added to an aggregate. Many buildings and structures still standing today, such as bridges, reservoirs and aqueducts, were built with this material...

history remembers for their accomplishments commanding Roman armies on land and sea. Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 67 BC) Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul...

Kingdom and the early Republic, but its relevance waned after the Conflict of the Orders (494 BC to 287 BC). By the time of the late Republic and Empire...

as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated...

Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers). The Julian calendar was proposed in 46 BC by (and takes...