Patrician

In the early days of the Roman Republic, patricians formed a hereditary ruling group within the state. The patricians claimed to be able to trace their family to the original populous of Rome before the reign of Ancus Marcius and strong ties to the earliest members of Roman Senate. All magistracies were off-limits to non-patricians, who were known as plebeians. Patrician status was inherited, and intermarriage between patricians and plebeians was forbidden. Trade between ...

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Patrician, Patrician - Patrician caste, Patrician - Patrician position, Patrician - List of Patricii, Patrician - Modern usage, Patrician - Use in fiction

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Élite is taken from the latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the élite (the "elect," from French) is a relatively small dominant group within a larger society, which enjoys a privileged status which is upheld by individuals of lower social status within the structure of a group. When applied to an individual, as in the phrase "many élites come to this restaurant," the usage quite economically both refers to an individual within that clas ...

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• Elite - Religious élite
• Elite - Linguistic élite
• Elite - Class élite
• Elite - Educational élite
• Elite - Financial élite
• Elite - Élitism

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Élite advantages are the usual ones of a dominant social class: easier access to capital and political power, more rigorous education largely free of indoctrination, resulting in cultural influence, and leadership. Élites may justify their existence based on claims of inherited position; with the rise in authority of science, certain 19th and 20th century élites have embraced pseudoscientific justifications of genetic or racial superiority. In Nazi Germany, genetic superiority was used as the basis of an imagined "Aryan" élite. Élite classes headed by monarchies have traditionally employed r ...

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Elite, Elite - Religious élite, Elite - Linguistic élite, Elite - Class élite, Elite - Educational élite, Elite - Financial élite, Elite - Élitism

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Ankhius et Morporkia (Latatian, the Old Language) Coat of arms: A shield, quartered by a river (the Ankh) and tower (the Tower of Art). The quarters bear two moneybags, a field of cabbages and the unmarked black field of the Vetinaris. The shield is supported by two hippopotami and crested with a morpork holding an ankh. Merus in pectum et in aquam (Latatian: Pure in heart and water) Ankh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which features in Terry Pratchett's Discworld se ...

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• Ankh-Morpork - Geography
• Ankh-Morpork - The River Ankh
• Ankh-Morpork - History
• Ankh-Morpork - Politics
• Ankh-Morpork - Public holidays
• Ankh-Morpork - Real-World Connections

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The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is featured in the book Going Postal, a 2005 addition to British fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. The Post Office, which was once a vibrant, relevant institution complete with gleaming wooden counters and polished brass, staffed by postmen in spiffy blue uniforms, languished and almost died, according to Mr Groat (Junior Postman, later Senior Postman and Postal Inspector), when postmen began to leave half a sack of post behind in order to get home on time. Th ...

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This article details minor Discworld characters; characters from the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett who only appear in the background, or who have only had a brief starring role. Minor Discworld characters - 71-Hour Ahmed. A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. He speaks with a heavy accent and has a penchant for chewing on cloves. Following an attempt on the prince's life by an unknown assassin, ...

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• Minor Discworld characters - 71-Hour Ahmed
• Minor Discworld characters - Anghammarad
• Minor Discworld characters - Achmed the Mad
• Minor Discworld characters - Drum Billet
• Minor Discworld characters - B'hrian Bloodaxe
• Minor Discworld characters - Brick
• Minor Discworld characters - Brutha
• Minor Discworld characters - Count Casanunda
• Minor Discworld characters - Imp y Celyn
• Minor Discworld characters - Sacharissa Cripslock
• Minor Discworld characters - Death of Fleas
• Minor Discworld characters - Death of Rats
• Minor Discworld characters - Duck Man
• Minor Discworld characters - Carcer Dun
• Minor Discworld characters - Drumknott
• Minor Discworld characters - Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre
• Minor Discworld characters - Foul Ole Ron
• Minor Discworld characters - J.H.C. Goatberger
• Minor Discworld characters - Stanley Howler
• Minor Discworld characters - Hodgesaargh
• Minor Discworld characters - Kaos aka Ronnie Soak
• Minor Discworld characters - Princess Keli
• Minor Discworld characters - Doctor Lawn
• Minor Discworld characters - Lezek
• Minor Discworld characters - Moist von Lipwig
• Minor Discworld characters - The Magpyr family
• Minor Discworld characters - Modo
• Minor Discworld characters - Nijel the Destroyer
• Minor Discworld characters - Jason Ogg
• Minor Discworld characters - Shawn Ogg
• Minor Discworld characters - Polly Perks
• Minor Discworld characters - Pteppic
• Minor Discworld characters - Ptraci
• Minor Discworld characters - Pump 19
• Minor Discworld characters - Quoth
• Minor Discworld characters - Lord Rust
• Minor Discworld characters - Mr. Salzella
• Minor Discworld characters - The Selachii family
• Minor Discworld characters - Esk Eskarina Smith
• Minor Discworld characters - The Smoking GNU
• Minor Discworld characters - Wallace Sonky
• Minor Discworld characters - Findthee Swing
• Minor Discworld characters - General Tacticus
• Minor Discworld characters - The Venturi family
• Minor Discworld characters - Vorbis
• Minor Discworld characters - Galder Weatherwax
• Minor Discworld characters - Lupine Wonse
• Minor Discworld characters - William de Worde
• Minor Discworld characters - William Scuggins

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The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati Pontificii, "States of the Church") was one of the major historical states of Italy before the boot-shaped peninsula was unified under the Piedmontese crown of Savoy (later a republic). The Papal States comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense before 1870. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope, as opposed to his (unique and more essential) ecclestiastical primacy. The plural is u ...

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• Papal States - Origins
• Papal States - The Donation of Pippin and the Holy Roman Empire
• Papal States - The Renaissance
• Papal States - The era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
• Papal States - Italian nationalism and the end of the Papal States
• Papal States - Institutions

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In elite theory as developed by Marxist political scientists like Michael Parenti, all sufficiently large social groups will have some kind of élite group within them that actively participates in the group's political dynamics. When a group is arbitrarily excluded from the larger society, such as in the case of the racism that was widespread in the United States prior to the success of the civil rights movement, then élite members of the excluded group may form a counterélite to fight for their group's interests (although they may ...

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Elite, Elite - Religious élite, Elite - Linguistic élite, Elite - Class élite, Elite - Educational élite, Elite - Financial élite, Elite - Élitism

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This article details minor Discworld concepts: concepts and ideas from the Discworld of novels by Terry Pratchett which only appear in the background, or are not well fleshed out. Minor Discworld concepts - Anorankh. An anorankh is a pseudo-mystical symbol, consisting of an ankh wearing an anorak. It stems from a discussion on alt.fan.pratchett, a newsgroup for fans of British author Terry Pratchett, creator of the highly popular Discworld series of humorous fantasy novels. One user mistakenly ...

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• Minor Discworld concepts - Anorankh
• Minor Discworld concepts - Source
• Minor Discworld concepts - Anti-crime
• Minor Discworld concepts - Background magic
• Minor Discworld concepts - Battle of Koom Valley
• Minor Discworld concepts - Cable Street Particulars
• Minor Discworld concepts - Deja fu
• Minor Discworld concepts - Devices
• Minor Discworld concepts - Cubes
• Minor Discworld concepts - Axles
• Minor Discworld concepts - Average Bar
• Minor Discworld concepts - Imp Technology
• Minor Discworld concepts - Dis-Organisers
• Minor Discworld concepts - Klatchian Coffee
• Minor Discworld concepts - Latatian
• Minor Discworld concepts - Necrotelecomnicon
• Minor Discworld concepts - Neuralger
• Minor Discworld concepts - Octarine
• Minor Discworld concepts - Quantum
• Minor Discworld concepts - Re-annual plant
• Minor Discworld concepts - Roundworld
• Minor Discworld concepts - Scumble
• Minor Discworld concepts - Wandering Shops
• Minor Discworld concepts - Wow-Wow sauce

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In 2002, HBO and the BBC agreed to co-produce a new series based on the events of the "Roman Revolution": Rome. Towards that end, the two networks committed a $100 million USD budget to the production of twelve 1-hour episodes, with HBO contributing $85 million USD, and the BBC contributing an additional $15 million USD. Between March 2004 and May 2005, Rome was filmed in the Italian countryside, on six sound stages at Rome's legendary Cinecitta Studios, and in a collection of massive sets in Cinecitta Studios' back lot ...

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Rome TV series, Rome TV series - Series overview, Rome TV series - Series history, Rome TV series - Production, Rome TV series - First season, Rome TV series - Second season, Rome TV series - Production credits, Rome TV series - Characters and cast, Rome TV series - Episodes, Rome TV series - Specials, Rome TV series - Season 1 2005, Rome TV series - Season 2 2007, Rome TV series - The BBC editing controversy, Rome TV series - Rome trivia, Rome TV series - Broadcasting

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The Thieves' Guild was established early in Lord Havelock Vetinari's rule of Ankh-Morpork. Lord Vetinari realised that what people crave is stability, and that, while it is impossible to stamp out crime altogether, it is possible to regulate it. The major gang leaders of the city were therefore called to the Patrician's Palace, where they agreed to be held responsible for ensuring a socially acceptable number of thefts. While they may have been insincere in this promise, they soon found the Patr ...

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Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild, Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild - History, Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild - Coat of Arms, Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild - Code of Conduct, Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild - Guild Building

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A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. He speaks with a heavy accent and has a penchant for chewing on cloves. Following an attempt on the prince's life by an unknown assassin, he is suspected of killing the Watch's prime suspect, provoking Vimes and other Watch members to pursue him back to Klatch. Apart from belonging to a vicious but honorable warrior clan known as the D'regs, he is later revealed to be a Klatchian equivalent of a wa ...

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Minor Discworld characters, Minor Discworld characters - 71-Hour Ahmed, Minor Discworld characters - Anghammarad, Minor Discworld characters - Achmed the Mad, Minor Discworld characters - Drum Billet, Minor Discworld characters - B'hrian Bloodaxe, Minor Discworld characters - Brick, Minor Discworld characters - Brutha, Minor Discworld characters - Count Casanunda, Minor Discworld characters - Imp y Celyn, Minor Discworld characters - Conina, Minor Discworld characters - Sacharissa Cripslock, Minor Discworld characters - Death of Fleas, Minor Discworld characters - Death of Rats, Minor Discworld characters - Duck Man, Minor Discworld characters - Carcer Dun, Minor Discworld characters - Drumknott, Minor Discworld characters - Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, Minor Discworld characters - Foul Ole Ron, Minor Discworld characters - J.H.C. Goatberger, Minor Discworld characters - Stanley Howler, Minor Discworld characters - Hodgesaargh, Minor Discworld characters - Kaos aka Ronnie Soak, Minor Discworld characters - Princess Keli, Minor Discworld characters - Doctor Lawn, Minor Discworld characters - Lezek, Minor Discworld characters - Moist von Lipwig, Minor Discworld characters - The Magpyr family, Minor Discworld characters - Modo, Minor Discworld characters - Nijel the Destroyer, Minor Discworld characters - Jason Ogg, Minor Discworld characters - Shawn Ogg, Minor Discworld characters - Polly Perks, Minor Discworld characters - Pteppic, Minor Discworld characters - Ptraci, Minor Discworld characters - Pump 19, Minor Discworld characters - Quoth, Minor Discworld characters - Lord Rust, Minor Discworld characters - Mr. Salzella, Minor Discworld characters - Ella Saturday, Minor Discworld characters - The Selachii family, Minor Discworld characters - Esk Eskarina Smith, Minor Discworld characters - The Smoking GNU, Minor Discworld characters - Wallace Sonky, Minor Discworld characters - William Scuggins, Minor Discworld characters - Findthee Swing, Minor Discworld characters - General Tacticus, Minor Discworld characters - The Venturi family, Minor Discworld characters - Vorbis, Minor Discworld characters - Galder Weatherwax, Minor Discworld characters - Lupine Wonse, Minor Discworld characters - William de Worde

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According to legend, the first city of Ankh-Morpork was founded thousands of years ago by twin brothers who were raised by a hippopotamus (an allusion to the myth of Romulus and Remus). It is in memory of this that the hippo is the royal animal of Ankh. The original city was little more than a walled keep, surrounding the Tower of Art, a building of mysterious origin. At one point it had an empire, similar to the Roman Empire, that covered half the continent including the neighbouring country of Klatch. These were the days of the "Pax Morporkia," another ...

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Ankh-Morpork, Ankh-Morpork - Geography, Ankh-Morpork - The River Ankh, Ankh-Morpork - History, Ankh-Morpork - Politics, Ankh-Morpork - Public holidays, Ankh-Morpork - Real-World Connections

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A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. He speaks with a heavy accent and has a penchant for chewing on cloves. Following an attempt on the prince's life by an unknown assassin, he is suspected of killing the Watch's prime suspect, provoking Vimes and other Watch members to pursue him back to Klatch. Apart from belonging to a vicious but honorable warrior clan known as the D'regs, he is later revealed to be a Klatchian equivalent of a wa ...

See also:

Minor Discworld characters, Minor Discworld characters - 71-Hour Ahmed, Minor Discworld characters - Anghammarad, Minor Discworld characters - Achmed the Mad, Minor Discworld characters - Drum Billet, Minor Discworld characters - B'hrian Bloodaxe, Minor Discworld characters - Brick, Minor Discworld characters - Brutha, Minor Discworld characters - Count Casanunda, Minor Discworld characters - Imp y Celyn, Minor Discworld characters - Sacharissa Cripslock, Minor Discworld characters - Death of Fleas, Minor Discworld characters - Death of Rats, Minor Discworld characters - Duck Man, Minor Discworld characters - Carcer Dun, Minor Discworld characters - Drumknott, Minor Discworld characters - Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, Minor Discworld characters - Foul Ole Ron, Minor Discworld characters - J.H.C. Goatberger, Minor Discworld characters - Stanley Howler, Minor Discworld characters - Hodgesaargh, Minor Discworld characters - Kaos aka Ronnie Soak, Minor Discworld characters - Princess Keli, Minor Discworld characters - Doctor Lawn, Minor Discworld characters - Lezek, Minor Discworld characters - Moist von Lipwig, Minor Discworld characters - The Magpyr family, Minor Discworld characters - Modo, Minor Discworld characters - Nijel the Destroyer, Minor Discworld characters - Jason Ogg, Minor Discworld characters - Shawn Ogg, Minor Discworld characters - Polly Perks, Minor Discworld characters - Pteppic, Minor Discworld characters - Ptraci, Minor Discworld characters - Pump 19, Minor Discworld characters - Quoth, Minor Discworld characters - Lord Rust, Minor Discworld characters - Mr. Salzella, Minor Discworld characters - The Selachii family, Minor Discworld characters - Esk Eskarina Smith, Minor Discworld characters - The Smoking GNU, Minor Discworld characters - Wallace Sonky, Minor Discworld characters - Findthee Swing, Minor Discworld characters - General Tacticus, Minor Discworld characters - The Venturi family, Minor Discworld characters - Vorbis, Minor Discworld characters - Galder Weatherwax, Minor Discworld characters - Lupine Wonse, Minor Discworld characters - William de Worde, Minor Discworld characters - William Scuggins

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The sum total of the Roman population was divided into two classes, the Senate and the Roman People (as seen in the famous abbreviation SPQR); the Roman People consisted of all Roman citizens who were not members of the Senate, such as the plebeians and proletarians. Domestic power was vested in the Roman People, through the Centuriate Assembly (Comitia Centuriata), the Tribal Assembly (Comitia Populi Tributa), and the Council of the People (Concilium Plebis.) Contrary to popular belief, the Senate was not a legislature; ...

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Roman Senate, Roman Senate - Foundation, Roman Senate - Authority, Roman Senate - Membership, Roman Senate - Late Republican Senate, Roman Senate - Hierarchy, Roman Senate - Notable practices, Roman Senate - Style of dress, Roman Senate - The Equestrian class, Roman Senate - Decline of the Senate 1st century BC - 6th century AD, Roman Senate - Eastern Roman Senate

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The Roman Catholic Church spent its first three centuries as an outlawed organization and was thus unable to hold or transfer property. After the ban was lifted by the Emperor Constantine I, the church's private property grew quickly through the donations of the pious and the wealthy; the Lateran Palace was the first significant donation, a gift of Constantine himself. Other donations soon followed, mainly in mainland Italy but also in the provinces. However, the Church held all of these lands as a private landowner, not as a sovereign entit ...

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Papal States, Papal States - Origins, Papal States - The Donation of Pippin and the Holy Roman Empire, Papal States - The Renaissance, Papal States - The era of the French Revolution and Napoleon, Papal States - Italian nationalism and the end of the Papal States, Papal States - Institutions

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In Roman law, the power to give children in adoption was one of the recognised powers of the pater familias. The adopted boy would usually be the oldest, the one with proved health and abilities. Adoption was an expensive agreement for the childless family and quality had to be ensured. Adoption was agreed between families of (for the most part) equal status, often political allies and/or with blood connections. A Plebeian adopted by a Patrician would become a patrician, and vice versa; however, at least in Republican times, this requ ...

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Adoption in Ancient Rome, Adoption in Ancient Rome - Causes, Adoption in Ancient Rome - Practice, Adoption in Ancient Rome - Imperial Succession

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Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Romulus. Romulus was not only Rome's first King but also the city's founder. In 753 BC, Romulus began building the city upon the Palatine Hill. After founding Rome, he invited criminals, runaway slaves, exiles, and other undesirables by granting them asylum. In this manner, Romulus populated five of the seven hills of Rome. To provide his citizens with wives, Romulus invited the neighboring Sabine tribe to a festival where he abducted the Sabine women and brought them back to Rome (remembered as the Rape of the Sabine Women). After the ensuing war with the Sabines, R ...

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Roman Kingdom, Roman Kingdom - The Kings of Rome, Roman Kingdom - Election of the King, Roman Kingdom - Rome Under The Kings, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Romulus, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Numa Pompilius, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Tullus Hostilius, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Ancus Marcius, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Tarquinius Priscus, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Servius Tullius, Roman Kingdom - The Reign of Tarquinius Superbus, Roman Kingdom - Public Offices after the Monarchy, Roman Kingdom - Return of the monarchal system

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The law was championed for the plebeians in their struggle for power with the war-weakened patricians during what is often referred to as the Later Conflict of the Orders, following major wars with Gaul and the Latins. It combines agrarian and constitutional demands of the plebeians. Patrician conservative leader Marcus Furius Camillus may have seen the law as a required concession. The law comes near the end of a period described as 'anarchy' (375 BC) during a period in which consuls had been replaced by military tribunes with consul ...

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Lex Licinia Sextia, Lex Licinia Sextia - Authors, Lex Licinia Sextia - Purpose, Lex Licinia Sextia - Provisions, Lex Licinia Sextia - Alternate names

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Stilicho was born in what is today Germany. His father was a Vandal and his mother was a Roman citizen. Despite has father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Roman, although like many of the Germans he was Arian rather than Catholic. He joined the Roman army and rose through the ranks during the reign of Theodosius the Great, who ruled the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from Constantinople, and who was to become the last emperor to rule both the Eastern and Western halves of t ...

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Stilicho, Stilicho - Career, Stilicho - Downfall, Stilicho - Postmortem, Stilicho - Controversy, Stilicho - Sources, Stilicho - Notes

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