Main articles: History of the Constitution of the Roman Kingdom and Constitution of the Roman KingdomThe period of the kingdom can be divided into two epochs based on the legends, handed down to us pr ...
See also: Roman senate, Senate of the Roman Kingdom, Senate of the Roman Republic and Senate of the Roman EmpireThe Roman senate was the most permanent of all of Rome's political institutions. It was ...
Main article: Ancient Greek literatureAncient Greek literature refers to literature written in Ancient Greek from the oldest surviving written works in the Greek language until approximately the fifth ...
Main article: Old LatinFormal Latin literature began in 230 BC, when a Roman audience saw a Latin version of a Greek play. The adaptor was Livius Andronicus, a Greek who had been brought to Rome as a ...
A politician, political leader, or political figure (from Classical Greek π?λι?, "polis") is a person who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making. This includes people who ho ...
Abby Guy sued her master William Daniel for her freedom in Arkansas, alleging that her mother had been a kidnapped and enslaved white woman.Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a prince from West Africa, was ...
Most early Roman painting styles show Etruscan influences, particularly in the practice of political painting. In the 3rd century BCE, Greek art taken as booty from wars became popular, and many Roman ...
Main article: Social class in ancient RomeThe center of the early social structure, dating from the time of the agricultural tribal city state, was the family, which was not only marked by blood relat ...
At the height of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, the Roman educational system gradually found its final form. Formal schools were established, which served paying students; very little ...
Concubinage (Latin: contubernium; concubine=concubina, considered milder than paelex) was the institution practiced in ancient Rome that allowed men to enter into certain illegal relationships without ...
The lives of elite Roman women were essentially determined by their marriages. We are best informed about families with both wealth and political standing, whose largely inherited money would follow b ...
Adoption practices have changed significantly over the course of the 20th century, with each new movement labeled, in some way, as reform. Beginning in the 1970s, efforts to improve adoption became as ...
Main article: Adoption by same-sex couplesLegal status of adoption by same-sex couples around the world. Joint adoption Step-child adoption LGBT individuals explicitly allowedSee file info for questio ...
Antiquity Adoption for the well-bornTrajan became emperor of Rome through adoption, a customary practice of the empire that enabled peaceful transitions of powerWhile the modern form of adoption emerg ...
The word gens is sometimes translated as "race" or "nation," meaning a people descended from a common ancestor (rather than sharing a common physical trait). It can also be translated as "clan" or "tr ...
