- 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
- ancient history - Who were some Greek Plebeian Gentes, especially from . . .
The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (W B Stanford Memorial Lectures)", Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, 2006 The Wikipedia list of Roman gentes notes no Greek gentes at all:
- What is the history of Translation is like a woman quote?
Lors que la version de Lucien de M d'Ablancourt parut, bien des gens se plaignirent de ce qu'elle n'étoit pas fidèle Pour moi je l'appelai la belle infidèle, qui étoit le nom que j'avois donné étant jeune à une de mes maîtresses (When Mr d'Ablancourt's version of Lucien appeared, many people complained that it was not faithful
- 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
- 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 happened to the North Saxons? - History Stack Exchange
Those people in other countries, meanwhile, who by then spoke of the inhabitants of eastern Britain as “Saxons” (perhaps as a continuance of the earlier Roman usage) seem, as the qualifications “English Saxons” or “Saxons of England” imply, to have meant by this much the same people as Bede meant by gens Anglorum
- How long does a generation last? - History Stack Exchange
Question: Generetion, as a time period, is a widespread concept (or perhaps an idea) in History, in Social Sciences, and also in common language Do historians have some sort of consensus on the time
- 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
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