Political institutions of ancient Rome
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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[]
- aedile – Office of the Roman Republic
- censor – Roman magistrate responsible for the census and monitoring public morality
- comes palatinus – High-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times
- consul – Political office in ancient Rome
- decemviri – 10-man commission in the Roman Republic
- dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic
- dux – Roman title
- emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire in imperial period
- governor
- imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
- legatus – High-ranking Roman military officer
- lictor – Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
- magistrate
- officium
- pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
- praefectus
- praetor – Official of the Roman Republic
- praetor peregrinus
- princeps senatus
- procurator
- promagistrates
- quaestor
- rex
- senator
- tribune – Elected Roman officials
- triumviri
- vicarius
- vigintisexviri – College of minor magistrates of the Roman Republic
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[]
- auctoritas – Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
- civitas
- collegia
- consortium
- consuetudo – Legal principle
- contractus
- contractus litteris
- curiae
- cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome
- decreta
- delectum – Civil wrong
- digesta
- edicta
- aequitas – Roman legal concept
- fiducia
- gravitas – Ancient Roman virtue
- imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
- iudex
- ius
- libertas – Roman goddess of liberty
- mos maiorum – Customs and traditions of ancient Rome
- municipium
- obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
- pietas – An Ancient Roman virtue
- potestas – Latin word meaning power or faculty
- responsa – Body of written legal decisions and rulings
- provincia – Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy
- ratio – Relationship between two numbers of the same kind
- senatus consultum
- stipulatio
- First Triumvirate – Alliance between Roman politicians Caesar, Pompey and Crassus
- Second Triumvirate – Roman political alliance
Miscellaneous[]
- Tarpeian Rock – Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome
Notes[]
Categories:
- Ancient Roman government
- Roman law
- Ancient Rome-related lists
- Political systems
- Tetrarchy