Political institutions of ancient Rome

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]

## Contents

* 1 Laws
* 2 Legislatures
* 3 Religious Institutions
* 4 State offices
* 5 Lists of individual office holders
* 6 Political factions
* 7 Social ranks
* 8 Glossary of law and politics
* 9 See also
* 10 Notes

## 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

## Religious Institutions

* Roman Catholic Church

## 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

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

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