In the early Roman Republic, did every patrician family have at least . . . The first gens you mentioned was in my question and did have a consular tribune: The gens Foslia, later Folia, was a patrician family at Rome The first of the gens to appear in history was Marcus Foslius Flaccinator, consular tribune in 433 BC
ancient rome - History Stack Exchange Some notable examples would be the Julia gens (Caesar's origins) who emigrated from Alba Longa before Tullus Hostilius destroyed it and the Furia gens (Marcus Camillus' origins) who came from Tusculum
What is the history of Translation is like a woman quote? Modern quote I am looking for the history of the [derogatory] quote: Translation is like a woman If it is beautiful, it is not faithful If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful It
Who said there were more idols gods than people in the ancient world . . . @RebChaimHaQoton - "Genius" probably does not come from "jinni " It is etymologically related to "gens," whence words like "gente" in Spanish or "genetic," i e it refers to a family (a genius was the spirit of a family) The French descendant "genie" was used to translate "jinni" as a type of cultural adaptation due to the slight and probably coincidental similarities between the words (only
Why did Roman women have no praenomen? - History Stack Exchange In a recent question it was noted, as is well known, that Roman girls were not given praenomen, but took the feminine form of their father's gens - eg Valeria, Cornelia I have even read the assert
What was the death toll during the Inquisition? I'm researching about the death toll during the Inquisition, I'm particularly interested in what happened from 12th to the 15th century but not exclusively to this period One part of this questio
What did Richelieu mean by his six lines quote? Cardinal Richelieu is frequently quoted as saying, If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him What I've never seen
Did the polytheist Greeks or Romans call their priests “father”? As priest of familia, gens and genius The domestic responsibilities of the pater familias included his priestly duties (sacra familiae) to his "household gods" (the lares and penates) and the ancestral gods of his own gens The latter were represented by the di parentes as ancestral shades of the departed, and by the genius cult