Political

The Julian marriage laws

In 18 B.C., the Emperor Augustus turned his attention to social problems at Rome. Extravagance and adultery were widespread. Among the upper classes, marriage was increasingly infrequent and, many couples who did marry failed to produce offspring. Augustus, who hoped thereby to elevate both the morals and the numbers of the upper classes in Rome, a...

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Those Wacky Emperors

A somewhat irreverent survey of fifty-one men, from Julius Caesar through Diocletian, who held supreme power in the empire that owned the entire Mediterranean Sea for four hundred years. [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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Corpus Iuris Civilis:

The Digest and Codex:Marriage Laws This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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Roman Emperers

Julio-Claudian Dynasty Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero The Year of Four Emperors Servius Sulpicius Galba Marcus Salvius Otho Flavian Dynasty Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Titus Titus Flavius Domitianus Nervan-Antonian Dynasty - Five Good Emperors Nerva Trajan List of Emperors Continued [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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Roman Government Officials

During the Late Republic by Rich Hamper. [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors "Welcome to De Imperatoribus Romanis, a web site which simply allows its users to retrieve short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay on this site,which is peer rev...

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The Roman Republican Constitution

A discussion of the political offices and responsibilities of the various branches of the Roman Republican government from the University of Texas, Department of Classics....

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Ordinary Consuls of the Roman Republic and Empire

ORDINARY CONSULS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE 300 BC -- 68 AD [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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The Law of the Twelve Tablets

(from E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin III, circa 450 B.C.). [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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The Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition

Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition by John Rich (University of Nottingham) [Rome] [Political Resources]...

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