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The Roman Senate (Latin: Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.With different powers throughout its existence it lasted from the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally founded in 753 BC) as the Senate of the Roman Kingdom, to the Senate of the Roman Republic and Senate of the Roman Empire and eventually the Byzantine Senate of ...
44–29 BC. The Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia) is the third named curia, or senate house, in the ancient city of Rome. It was built in 44 BC, when Julius Caesar replaced Faustus Cornelius Sulla 's reconstructed Curia Cornelia, which itself had replaced the Curia Hostilia. Caesar did so to redesign both spaces within the Comitium and the Roman ...
v. t. e. The Senate of the Roman Empire was a political institution in the ancient Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the Roman Senate to the Roman Emperor. Beginning with the first emperor, Augustus, the Emperor and the Senate were technically two co-equal branches of government.
The Curia Cornelia was a place where the Roman Senate assembled beginning c. 52 BC. [ 1] It was the largest of all the Curiae (Senate Houses) built in Rome. Its construction took over a great deal of the traditional comitium space and brought the senate building into a commanding location within the Roman Forum as a whole.
cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome. decreta – Edict or proclamation usually issued by a head of state. Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets. delectum – Civil wrong. digest – Roman law digesta. edicta – Announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism.
Roman Forum. / 41.89222°N 12.48528°E / 41.89222; 12.48528. The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum ( Italian: Foro Romano ), is a rectangular forum ( plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this ...
The cursus honorum ( Latin for 'course of honors', or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; Latin: [ˈkʊrsʊs hɔˈnoːrũː]) was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank.
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