Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Roman Senate (Latin: Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.
Roman senators were the city's most experienced public servants and society's elite, mostly from the aristocratic patrician class. Their numbers changed over time and was not fixed but there were probably between 300 and 600 senators at any one time.
Senate, in ancient Rome, the governing and advisory council that proved to be the most permanent element in the Roman constitution. It developed under the monarchy as an advisory council; after the abolition of the monarchy in 509 BC, it became the advisory council of the consuls (the two highest magistrates).
Over the centuries, the Roman Senate saw dramatic changes to its composition, influence, and powers. Yet ultimately it would outlast even the emperors of Rome, being a staple of Roman government from its first coalescence to its final dissolution.
An Overview of the Roman Senate. The Roman Republic emerged in 509 B.C.E. following the expulsion of its long-standing monarchy. Critical to the Republic’s foundation was an emphasis on forming ...
The Senate was the governing and advisory assembly of the aristocracy in the ancient Roman Republic. It was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls, and later by the censors, which were appointed by the aristocratic Centuriate Assembly.
Its name suggests that it was originally composed of elderly men (senes), whose age and knowledge of traditions must have been highly valued in a preliterate society. During the republic, the Senate was composed of members from the leading families. Its size during the early republic is unknown.
Roman government revolved around the Roman Senate with its body of aristocratic citizens who distinguished themselves from everyone else with their titles, purple-striped togas, senatorial rings and even special shoes. Senators held the key public offices and many would command provinces and armies.
The Roman Senate (Senatus) from the latin Senex (for elder or council of elders) was a deliberative governing body. It is important to note the difference between deliberative and legislative, in that the Senate itself didn't propose legislation; though magistrates within the Senate, such as Consuls, did. The body of the senate deliberated ...
Ancient Rome - The Roman Senate and the urban magistracies: Augustus regarded the Senate, whose leading member (princeps senatus) he had become in 28, as a body with important functions; it heard fewer overseas embassies than formerly, but otherwise its dignity and authority seemed unimpaired; its members filled the highest offices; its decrees ...