Political institutions of ancient Rome

Ancient Rome
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Ordinary Magistrates
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Extraordinary Magistrates
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Titles and Honours
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A list regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome follows.

Contents 1 Constitutions 2 Law 3 Legislatures 4 Political factions 5 Social ranks 6 State offices 7 Lists of individual office holders 8 Glossary of law & instutions 9 Miscellaneous 10 Notes

Constitutions

• Roman Constitution
• Constitution of the Roman Kingdom
• Constitution of the Roman Republic
• Constitution of the Roman Empire
• Constitution of the Late Roman Empire^[1]

Law

• Roman law
• List of Roman laws
• Twelve Tables

Legislatures

• Roman senate
• Roman assemblies
• Roman Curia
• Comitia curiata
• Comitia centuriata
• Comitia tributa
• Concilium plebis

Political factions

• Optimates
• Populares
• Conflict of the Orders^[2]

Social ranks

• Nobiles
• Patricians
• Equites
• Plebs
• Proletarians

State offices

• aedile
• censor
• comes palatinus
• consul
• decemviri
• dictator
• dux
• emperor
• governor
• imperator
• legatus
• lictor
• magistrate
• officium
• pontifex maximus
• praefectus
• praetor
• praetor peregrinus
• princeps senatus
• procurator
• promagistrates
• quaestor
• rex
• senator
• tribune
• triumviri
• vicarius
• vigintisexviri

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

Glossary of law & instutions

• auctoritas
• civitas
• collegia
• consilium
• consortium
• consuetudo
• contractus
• curiae
• cursus honorum
• decreta
• digesta
• edicta
• equitas
• fiducia
• gravitas
• imperium
• iudex
• ius
• lex
• libertas
• mos maiorum
• municipium
• obligatio
• patria
• pietas
• potestas
• responsa
• provincia
• ratio
• senatus consultum
• First Triumvirate
• Second Triumvirate

Miscellaneous

• Tarpeian Rock

Notes

Ancient Rome Outline · Timeline Epochs Foundation Monarchy Republic Empire (Principate and Dominate) Decline Western Empire / Eastern Empire Constitution History Constitution the Kingdom the Republic the Empire the Late Empire Senate Legislative assemblies Curiate Century Tribal Plebeian Executive magistrates Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri Lictor Magister militum Imperator Princeps senatus Pontifex Maximus Augustus Caesar Tetrarch Optimates Populares Province Magistrates Ordinary: Tribune Quaestor Aedile Praetor Consul Censor Promagistrate Governor Extraordinary: Dictator Magister Equitum Decemviri Consular Tribune Triumvir Rex Interrex Law Twelve Tables Roman citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Military Borders Establishment Structure Campaigns Political control Strategy Engineering Frontiers and fortifications (Castra) Technology Army (Legion Infantry tactics Personal equipment Siege engines) Navy (Fleet) Auxiliaries Decorations and punishments Hippika gymnasia Economy Agriculture Deforestation Commerce Finance Currency Republican currency Imperial currency SPQR Technology Abacus Numerals Civil engineering Military engineering Military technology Aqueducts Bridges Circus Concrete Forum Metallurgy Roads Sanitation Thermae Culture Architecture Art Bathing Calendar Clothing Cosmetics Cuisine Hairstyles Education Literature Music Mythology Romans (ethnic group) Religion Romanization Sexuality Theatre Wine Society Patricians Plebs Conflict of the Orders Secessio plebis Equestrian order Gens Tribes Naming conventions Women Marriage Slavery Language (Latin) Latin alphabet History Romance languages Versions: Old Classical Vulgar Late Medieval Renaissance New Contemporary Ecclesiastical Writers Apuleius Caesar Catullus Cicero Ennius Horace Juvenal Livy Lucan Lucretius Martial Ovid Petronius Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Propertius Quintilian Sallust Seneca Statius Suetonius Tacitus Terence Tibullus Valerius Maximus Varro Virgil Vitruvius Lists Wars Battles Generals Legions Emperors Geographers Institutions Laws Consuls Distinguished women Major cities Alexandria Antioch Carthage Constantinople Londinium Mediolanum Pompeii Ravenna Rome Smyrna Portal