Encyclopedia - Lucius: Encyclopedia - Lucius
Lucius is one of the small group of common forenames found in the culture of ancient Rome. Famous men with this forename (praenomen) incl...   » Read the article

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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus
Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives (Latin: M·LICINIVS·P·F·P·N·CRASSVS·DIVES¹) (ca. 115 BC–53 BC) was a Roman general and politician ...   » Read the article

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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Senate: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Senate - Authority
The sum total of the Roman population was divided into two classes, the Senate and the Roman People (as seen in the famous abbreviation S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Republican Roman Consuls: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Republican Roman Consuls - 6th Century Bc
509 Lucius Junius M.f. Brutus, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus 509 then Publius Valerius Volusi f. Publicola. (Sp. Lucretius Tricipitinus, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Cursus Honorum
Caesar was elected quaestor by the Assembly of the People in 70 BC, at the age of 30, as stipulated in the Roman cursus honorum. This off...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Assemblies: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Assemblies - Centuriate Assembly
The Comitia Centuriata included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic classes (knights and senators being the First ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Republic - History Of The Roman Republic
Roman Republic - The legendary founding of Rome — 753 BC. The origins and early history of Rome are very uncertain. While there are q...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - In The East. The First Civil War
As the consul of Rome, Sulla prepared to depart once more for the East, in order to fight the first Mithridatic War, by the appointment o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Early Life
Marcus Licinius Crassus was the son of a former consul and censor, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives. He came from a respectable, well-estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marius: Encyclopedia Ii - Marius - Early Career
Marius was born ca. 157 BC in the town of Arpinum in southern Latium. The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late fourth centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Cursus Honorum
Caesar was elected quaestor by the Assembly of the People in 70 BC, at the age of 30, as stipulated in the Roman cursus honorum. This off...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Assemblies: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Assemblies - Sulla's Changes
During his consulate in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla passed a series of three laws impeding the Tribal Assembly and the Council of the P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Early Life
Caesar was born in Rome into a well-known patrician family (gens Julia), which supposedly traced its ancestry to Julus, the son of the Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Republic - Government Institutions
The first and most important institution of the Roman Republic was the Roman Senate. Inside the Senate there were two unofficial parties:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Republic - Figures Of The Republic
Roman Republic - Early Republic. Lucretia Lucius Junius Brutus Cincinnatus Appius Claudius the Censor Samnite wars Punic wars, Carthag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Assemblies: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Assemblies - Senate
Although the permanent Roman Senate passed senatus consulta ("the senate's advice") recommending laws and measures, these were comparable...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Assassination
The fear of Caesar becoming king continued when someone placed a diadem on the statue of Caesar on the Rostra. The tribunes, Gaius Epidiu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Family
Wives First marriage to Cornelia Cinnilla Second marriage to Pompeia Sulla Third marriage to Calpurnia Pisonis Children Julia Caesaris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Honours
Caesar was ranked #67 on Michael H. Hart's list of the most influential figures in history. Was voted the title Divus, or "god," after hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Republican Roman Consuls: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Republican Roman Consuls - 3rd Century Bc
300 Marcus Valerius M.f. Corvus V, Quintus Appuleius Pansa 299 Marcus Fulvius Cn.f. Paetinus, Titus Manlius T.f. Torquatus, Suffect: Marc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Dictator At Rome
Determined to regain control of Rome, Sulla marched back to Italy. After a period of idleness, Sulla's army defeated the Samnite forces o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Legacy
Crassus' death is important for a number of reasons. While one of the most successful businessmen in Roman history, he still hungered for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Retirement
With a lifetime dictatorship in his hands, Sulla was elected consul for the second time in 80 BC, but within a year he took the decision ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Chronology
... See also:Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar - Early life, Julius Caesar - Caesar's cursus honorum, Julius Caesar - The First Triumvir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Family
Wives First marriage to Cornelia Cinnilla Second marriage to Pompeia Sulla Third marriage to Calpurnia Pisonis Children Julia Caesaris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - After The War
Caesar returned to Italy in September 45 BC. Among his first tasks he filed his will, naming Octavian as the heir to everything he had in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - The Civil War
In 50 BC, the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered Caesar to return to Rome and disband his army because his term as Proconsul had finished. Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Aftermath
Caesar's death also marked, ironically, the end of the Roman Republic, for which the assassins had struck him down. The Roman middle and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Literary Works
Caesar was considered during his lifetime to be one of the finest orators and authors of prose in Rome—even Cicero spoke highly of Caes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Military Career
Historians place the generalship of Caesar on the level of such geniuses as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - The First Triumvirate And The Gallic War
In 60 BC (or 59 BC) the Centuriate Assembly elected Caesar senior Consul of the Roman Republic. His junior partner was his political enem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Early Years
Sulla was born into an impoverished branch of the Cornelii gens, or family, of aristocratic patrician stock but without influence in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marius: Encyclopedia Ii - Marius - Pontus And The First Civil War
, 88-84 BC. After the conclusion of the Social War, Mithradates of Pontus began his bid to conquer the eastern provinces and invaded Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marius: Encyclopedia Ii - Marius - Showdown With The Germans
In 102 BC the Cimbri returned from Hispania into Gaul and together with the Teutoni decided to invade Italy. The Teutoni were to head sou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Early Life
Caesar was born in Rome into a well-known patrician family (gens Julia), which supposedly traced its ancestry to Julus, the son of the Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - The First Triumvirate And The Gallic War
In 60 BC (or 59 BC) the Centuriate Assembly elected Caesar senior Consul of the Roman Republic. His junior partner was his political enem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - The Civil War
In 50 BC, the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered Caesar to return to Rome and disband his army because his term as Proconsul had finished. Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marius: Encyclopedia Ii - Marius - Cimbri And Teutoni
The arrival of the Cimbri in Gaul in 109 BC and their complete defeat of M. Junius Silanus had resulted in unrest among the Celtic tribes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marius: Encyclopedia Ii - Marius - Run For The Consulship
By 108 BC, Marius conceived the desire to run for the Consulship. Seeking permission from Metellus to go to Rome to do so, he was urged t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - The Revolt Of Spartacus
Crassus had worked his way up to serving as praetor when the revolt of Spartacus and other ex-gladiators flamed into a general slave insu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Consulship And The First Triumvirate
Because of their work in the slave rebellion, the two men overcame their differences, ran for, and were elected to, the consulship, in 70...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Disaster In Parthia
In an attempt to counter Caesar’s and Pompey’s growing fame and power, Crassus had intended to use Syria as a base for operations aga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Legacy
Crassus' death is important for a number of reasons. While one of the most successful businessmen in Roman history, he still hungered for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - After The War
Caesar returned to Italy in September, 45 BC. Among his first tasks he filed his will, naming Octavian as his sole heir. The Senate had a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Assassination
The fear of Caesar becoming king continued when someone placed a diadem on the statue of Caesar on the Rostra. The tribunes, Gaius Epidiu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Republican Roman Consuls: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Republican Roman Consuls - 3rd Century Bc
300 Marcus Valerius M.f. Corvus V, Quintus Appuleius Pansa 299 Marcus Fulvius Cn.f. Paetinus, Titus Manlius T.f. Torquatus, Suff.: Marcus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Honours
Caesar was ranked #67 on Michael H. Hart's list of the most influential figures in history. Was voted the title Divus, or "god," after hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Republican Roman Consuls: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Republican Roman Consuls - 2nd Century Bc
200 Publius Sulpicius Ser.f. Galba Maximus II, Gaius Aurelius C.f. Cotta 199 Lucius Cornelius L.f. Lentulus, Publius Villius Ti.f. Tappul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Republican Roman Consuls: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Republican Roman Consuls - 1st Century Bc
100 Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Gaius Marius VI 99 Aulus Postumius Albinus, Marcus Antonius Orator 98 Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, Titu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Dictator At Rome
Determined to regain control of Rome, he marched on the city. After a period of idleness, Sulla's army defeated the Samnite forces of Pon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Chronology
... See also:Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar - Early life, Julius Caesar - Caesar's cursus honorum, Julius Caesar - The First Triumvir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Family
Wives First marriage to Cornelia Cinnilla Second marriage to Pompeia Sulla Third marriage to Calpurnia Pisonis Children Julia Caesaris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Aftermath
Caesar's death also marked, ironically, the end of the Roman Republic, for which the assassins had struck him down. The Roman middle and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar As Jesus?
The scholar Francesco Carotta makes a very strong case of the possibility that Caesar's life and achievements were in fact the basis on w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Literary Works
Caesar was considered during his lifetime to be one of the finest orators and authors of prose in Rome—even Cicero spoke highly of Caes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Military Career
Historians place the generalship of Caesar on the level of such geniuses as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte. Alt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Retirement
With a lifetime dictatorship in his hands, Sulla was elected consul for the second time in 80 BC, but in the next year he took the decisi...   » Read the article