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

• emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period
• Religion:Pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
• Religion:Primicerius

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

• Optimates
• Populares

(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

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