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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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Balbus, literally "stammerer", was the name of several Roman families. Of the Acilii Balbi, one Manius Acilius Balbus was consul in 150 BC, another in 114. To another family belonged T. Ampius Balbus, a supporter of Pompey, but afterwards pardoned by Julius Caesar (cf. Cic. ad Fam. vi. 12 and xiii. 70). We know also of Q. Antonius Balbus, praetor in Sicily in 82 BC, and Marcus Atius Balbus, who married Julia, a sister of Caesar, and had a daughter Atia, mother of Augustus. The most important of the name were the two Cornelii Balbi, natives of Gades (Cádiz): Lucius Cornelius Balbus (major)

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Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132-135 CE) against the Roman Empire, also known as The Second Jewish-Roman War or The Second Jewish Revolt, was a second major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea. Alternatively, some sources call it The Third Revolt, counting also the riots of 115-117, the Kitos War, suppressed by the general Quintus Lucius Quietus who governed the province at the time. Bar Kokhba's revolt - Background. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE as a result of the failed Great Jewi ...

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Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus Pius (September 19, 86–March 7, 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii. He was the son of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, a consul whose family came from Nemausus (modern-day Nîmes), and was born near Lanuvium. After the death of his father, he was brought up under the care of Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, a man of inte ...

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Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 361 BC 360 BC 359 BC 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC 354 BC 353 BC 352 BC 351 BC 356 BC - Events. A praetor is chosen in Rome for the first time circa July 21: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by fire (according to Plutarch, the same day as Alexander the Great is born). The Phocians sack Delphi. Other members of the Great Amphic ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC - 120 BC - 119 BC 118 BC 117 BC 116 BC 115 BC 120 BC - Events. 120 BC - Births. Berenice III, reigning Queen of Egypt Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, writer and politician Verr ...

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Brutus is a Roman cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii family, especially in the Roman Republic. Brutus - Ancient Romans with this name. For the Brutus who was the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, see Marcus Junius Brutus. Other notable ancient Romans with this cognomen include: Tiberius Junius Brutus — rebel; son of Lucius Junius Brutus Titus Junius Brutus — rebel; son of Lucius Junius Brutus Gnaeus Junius Brutus — first plebeian Jun ...

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Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BC?–62 BC), known in English as Catiline, was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catiline (or Catilinarian) conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate. One of the most enigmatic figures of Roman history, Catiline has been obscured by the invective of historians. The two chief sources for information on Catiline possessed numerous reasons to depict him in the worst possibl ...

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Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (November 17, 9 – June 23, 79), known originally as Titus Flavius Vespasianus and best known as Vespasian, was emperor of Rome from 69 to 79. Vespasian was the founder of the short-lived though influential Flavian dynasty, being succeeded as emperor by his sons Titus and Domitian, and ascended the throne at the end of the tumultuous Year of the Four Emperors. Vespasian's reign is best known for his reforms following the demise of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and for the campaign agai ...

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Consul (abbrev. cos.) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. After the expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus and the ending of the Roman Kingdom, all the powers and authority of the King were given to the newly instituted Consuls. The office of Consul was believed to date back to the traditional establishment of the Republic in 509 BC, although the early history is partly legendary, and the succession of Consuls is not continuous in the 5th century. Consuls executed bot ...

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Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives (Latin: M·LICINIVS·P·F·P·N·CRASSVS·DIVES¹) (ca. 115 BC–53 BC) was a Roman general and politician who suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus and entered into a secret pact, known as the First Triumvirate, with Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. He was known as one of the richest men of the era (Dives is Latin for "rich") and was killed after a defeat at Carrhae. Of the three informal triumvirs who helped bring an end to the Roman Republic, somehow Crassus, unli ...

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Marcus Porcius Cato (Latin: M·PORCIVS·M·F·CATO) (234 BC - 149 BC), Roman statesman, surnamed "The Censor," Sapiens, Priscus, or Major (the Elder), to distinguish him from Cato the Younger (his great-grandson), was born at Tusculum. He came of an ancient plebeian family, noted for some military services, but not ennobled by the discharge of the higher civil offices. He was bred, after the manner of his Latin forefathers, to agriculture, to which he devoted himself when not engaged in military service. B ...

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Not to be confused with The Nature of Things, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show about natural science. On the Nature of Things is a first century BC epic poem by Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along. It is a statement of personal responsibility in a world in which everyone is driven by hungers and passions with which they were born and do not understand. On the Nature of Things - Seeing with compassion. Lucre ...

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Censor was the name of two magistrates of high rank in the Roman Republic. Their office was called censura. From early in the Republic, they were responsible for maintaining the census, which was a register of Roman citizens and of their property, and to supervise publice morality and certain aspects of finance. Censor - Creation of the rank. The census was first established by Servius Tullius, the fifth king of Rome. After the expulsion of the kings it was taken by the consuls until 443 BC. I ...

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411 - Events. The Burgundians and the Alans elevate the usurper Jovinus as Roman Emperor. Petronius Maximus becomes praetor in Rome. Rabbulas becomes bishop of Edessa. 411 - Births. Peter the Iberian, Georgian theologian 411 - Deaths. Constantine III, Roman usurper (executed) Nun Yax Ayin, king of Tikal (probable date) Category: 411Including:

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43 BC - Events. April 14 - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius. Both consuls are killed (Hirtius did not die until after the Battle of Mutina; Octavian takes command of their armies. April 21 - Cicero's 14th and last Philippic. April 21 - Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus ...

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212 BC - Events. Second Punic War: In the First Battle of Capua, Hannibal defeats the consuls Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Appius Claudius, but the Roman army escapes, and soon reestablished the siege once again. Hannibal destroys the army of the Roman praetor Marcus Centenius Penula in the battle of the Silarus, then destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius in the First battle of Herdonia, both Roman generals were killed. The Romans take Syracuse, in which Archimedes ...

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20 - Events. First year of Dihuang era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty. Tiberias is built on the Sea of Galilee by Herod Antipas, in honour of Tiberius. Galba is a Roman praetor. Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus becomes a consul 20 - Births. 20 - Deaths. Hillel the Elder, Talmudic scholar, his school and teachings were the most influential in the Talmud. Vipsania Agrippina, wife of Gaius Asin ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC - 110s BC - 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC Years: 120 BC 119 BC 118 BC 117 BC 116 BC - 115 BC - 114 BC 113 BC 112 BC 111 BC 110 BC Events Parthia makes a trade treaty with China. The Kingdom of Sheba collapses. Gaius Marius is praetor in Rome, he defeats Spanish tribes in Further Spain. Births Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman politician Deaths

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54 BC - Events. Roman Republic Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Gallic Wars July - Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king Ambiorix revolts in Gaul. Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome. Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul Octavia Thurnia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Min ...

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