Social:Political institutions of ancient Rome

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Short description: Lists of political institutions of ancient Rome

Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented.[1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8). A political glossary (35) of similar construction follows.[2]

Laws

  • Roman law
  • List of Roman laws
  • Twelve Tables
  • Digest of Roman law
  • Corpus Juris Civilis

Legislatures

  • Roman Senate
  • Roman assemblies
  • Roman Curia
  • Comitia curiata
  • Comitia centuriata
  • Comitia tributa
  • Concilium plebis

State offices

Lists of individual office holders

  • List of Roman kings
  • List of Roman Consuls
  • List of Roman Emperors
  • List of principes senatus
  • List of Roman censors
  • List of Roman governors of Britain

Political factions

(also see Conflict of the Orders[3])

Social ranks

  • Nobles
  • Patricians
  • Equites
  • Plebs
  • Adsidui
  • Proletarians
  • Capite censi
  • Slaves

Glossary of law and politics

  • Philosophy:Auctoritas – Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
  • Organization:Consortium – Association of two or more individuals and/or organizations to achieve a common goal
  • Social:Aequitas – Roman legal concept
  • Philosophy:Imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
  • obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
  • provincia – Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy
  • Ratio – Relationship between two numbers of the same kind

See also

Notes

  1. Cf., History of Rome (disambiguation).
  2. A. Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1953).
  3. Patricians versus Plebs.