Political institutions of ancient Rome explained

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

Legislatures

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

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

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Notes and References

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