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Africa, Roman
William Nassau Weech, Brian Herbert Warmington, and R. J. A. Wilson
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Alba Fucens
T. W. Potter
Alba Fucens, a Latin colony of 6,000 (see
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alcoholism, Roman
John Maxwell O'Brien and Barney Rickenbacker
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Antium
Edward Togo Salmon and T. W. Potter
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Arverni
John Frederick Drinkwater
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Britain, Roman
Martin Millett
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Capitol/Capitolium
Albert William van Buren, Ian Archibald Richmond, John North, and John Patterson
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Cestius Epulo, Gaius, senator
Nicholas Purcell
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cohors
Henry Michael Denne Parker, George Ronald Watson, and Jonathan Coulston
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collegium
Piero Treves, Cyril Bailey, and Andrew Lintott
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colonization, Roman
A. N. Sherwin-White, Barbara Levick, and Edward Henry Bispham
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, the
Martin Beckmann
The Column of Marcus Aurelius is situated in Rome’s Campus Martius, on the west side of the ancient Via Flaminia and south of the Ara Pacis in the modern Piazza Colonna. It was probably begun in 175
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Column of Trajan, reception of
Elizabeth R. Macaulay
Since Late Antiquity, architects, leaders, and nations have emulated, adapted, and reinterpreted the Column of Trajan. Its appeal has been due to its height, ability to dominate the surrounding landscape, and complex spiral reliefs detailing the emperor Trajan’s annexation of Dacia as a Roman province. Its form has inspired countless honorific, triumphal, and commemorative monuments in the post-antique era.
Honorary columns were erected in Rome, possibly as early as 439
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damnatio memoriae
John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon and Barbara Levick
After the deaths of persons deemed by the senate enemies of the state, measures to erase their memory might follow. Originally there was no set package, as the phrase implies (cf. Ulp.Dig. 24. 1. 32. 7) but a repertoire (Tac.Ann. 3. 17. 8–18. 1): images might be destroyed (*Sejanus; *Valeria Messal(l)ina), and their display penalized (L. *Appuleius Saturninus, 98
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Domus Aurea
Larry Ball
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Etruscans
Nigel Spivey
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family, Roman
Susan M. Treggiari
English ‘family’ has connotations which have changed during its long history and vary according to context. Biologically, an individual human being is related to parents, through them to ascendants, aunts, uncles, siblings, and cousins, and may, by sexual intercourse with someone of the opposite sex, in turn become a parent, linked by blood to descendants. Blood relations for Romans were cognati, the strongest ties normally being with parents and children and the siblings with whom an individual grew up. Relationship established through the sexual tie of marriage was adfinitas; kin by marriage were adfines (in strict usage from engagement until dissolution of the marriage). Law initially stressed blood relationship through males: agnati (father's other children, father's siblings, father's brothers' children, a man's own children, etc. ) inherited on intestacy. By entering *manus (marital power), a married woman came into the same agnate group as husband and children; if she did not, her legal ties and rights were with her natal family.