What happened to all the notable Roman families?
Dec 12, 2014 · The gens originally held a governance function, then that governance function was absorbed into Roman governance. After the Imperial period, the functions were no longer …
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Dec 19, 2020 · Some notable examples would be the Julia gens (Caesar's origins) who emigrated from Alba Longa before Tullus Hostilius destroyed it and the Furia gens (Marcus Camillus' …
What is the history of "Translation is like a woman" quote?
Apr 10, 2024 · Lors que la version de Lucien de M. d'Ablancourt parut, bien des gens se plaignirent de ce qu'elle n'étoit pas fidèle. Pour moi je l'appelai la belle infidèle, qui étoit le nom …
ancient history - Who were some Greek Plebeian Gentes, …
Jul 14, 2017 · The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)", Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, 2006. The Wikipedia notes no …
In the early Roman Republic, did every patrician family have at …
The first gens you mentioned was in my question and did have a consular tribune: The gens Foslia, later Folia, was a patrician family at Rome. The first of the gens to appear in history …
How long does a generation last? - History Stack Exchange
Nov 17, 2020 · Question: Generetion, as a time period, is a widespread concept (or perhaps an idea) in History, in Social Sciences, and also in common language. Do historians have some …
Why did Roman women have no praenomen? - History Stack …
Feb 27, 2020 · In a recent question it was noted, as is well known, that Roman girls were not given praenomen, but took the feminine form of their father's gens - eg Valeria, Cornelia. I …
What is the oldest known international sporting event?
We know that modern Olympics are very popular international sporting events. What is the earliest known (documented) instance of an international sporting event? Let us define an …
What was the death toll during the Inquisition?
Aug 8, 2017 · I'm researching about the death toll during the Inquisition, I'm particularly interested in what happened from 12th to the 15th century but not exclusively to this period. One part of …
What happened to the North Saxons? - History Stack Exchange
Jun 4, 2020 · Those people in other countries, meanwhile, who by then spoke of the inhabitants of eastern Britain as “Saxons” (perhaps as a continuance of the earlier Roman usage) seem, as …