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This is a list of Roman nomina. 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.
This is a family tree of Roman emperors, showing only the relationships between the emperors. ... Eastern Roman Empire. Diocletian 244–311 r. 284–305: Prisca d. 315:
The name "Despotate of Epirus" is a modern historiographical name and was not used at the time. Some rulers used the version "despot of Romania" (Romania essentially referring to the territories of the Roman Empire, i.e. Byzantium) or "despot of the Romans" (claiming rulership over the Romans, i.e. the Byzantines/Greeks). Ottoman sultans
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history .
Caelius Vibenna - semi-legendary figure who gave his name to the Caelian hill, but real Etruscan from Vulci, Caile Vipinas Quintus Vibius Crispus - consul Gaius Vibius Marsus - consul
This is a list of the dynasties that ruled the Roman Empire and its two succeeding counterparts, the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.Dynasties of states that had claimed legal succession from the Roman Empire are not included in this list.
At the start of the Empire, ... A Roman woman kept her own family name (nomen) for life. Children most often took the father's name, with some exceptions. [118]
By contrast, in imperial times the cognomen became the principal distinguishing element of the Roman name, and although praenomina never completely vanished, the essential elements of the Roman name from the second century onward were the nomen and cognomen. [2] Naming conventions for women also varied from the classical concept of the tria ...