- 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
- europe - How did Western leaders justify NATOs eastwards expansion . . .
Western leaders apparently promised Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastwards and threaten Soviet security interests Leaders named include Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl,
- 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
- 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
- What happened to the North Saxons? - History Stack Exchange
By the eighth century, however, a sense of unity had somehow developed that enabled Bede to write in Latin of the gens Anglorum and, perhaps, to speak in the vernacular of the Angelcynn or Angeldeode — or both
- Did Roman Empire elite believe in their gods?
It is hard to expect of them to believe only in one side First, a common theory for pantheon development: the main family god become the gens god when the family grew into a gens; then the main gens god become the tribe god; then the tribes gods were put together into a pantheon of city-state gods
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