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The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen and claiming descent from a common ancestor. Over centuries, a gens could expand from a single family to a large clan, potentially including hundreds or even thousands of members. Some of these may have been the descendants ...
Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline) - conspirator. Titus Catius - writer. Cato, Marcus Porcius - the Elder, censor. Cato, Marcus Porcius - the Younger, politician, leader of the conservative faction. Gaius Porcius Cato - two; consul, tribune. Lucius Porcius Cato - consul. Catullus - writer and poet.
Roman naming conventions. Over the course of some fourteen centuries, the Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of a combination of personal and family names. Although conventionally referred to as the tria nomina, the ...
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
V. Valeria (given name) Categories: Names by country. Culture of ancient Rome. Latin words and phrases. Prosopography of ancient Rome.
Adrian. Albert (given name) Alexandru. Alexe. Anastase. Anatolie. Anghel. Anton (given name) Antonie (given name)
Nero, Sestertius with countermark "X" of Legio X Gemina. Obv: Laureate bust right. Rev: Nero riding horse right, holding spear, DECVRSIO in exergue; S C across fields. This is a list of Roman legions, including key facts about each legion, primarily focusing on the Principate (early Empire, 27 BC – 284 AD) legions, for which there exists substantial literary, epigraphic and archaeological ...
Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) – defeated the Garamantes. Barbatio. Belisarius. Lucilius Bassus. Publius Ventidius Bassus. Bonifacius. Bonosus (usurper) Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus – commanded Caesar's fleet in the war against the Veneti. Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus – led the Roman legions in the conquest of western Iberia.