cursus honorum
T. Corey Brennan
Down to the 3rd cent. bce there were perhaps few rules concerning the cursus honorum (career path) other than a requisite period of military service before seeking the political offices open to one's ...
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freedmen, freedwomen
M. I. Finley and Susan M. Treggiari
Emancipated slaves were more prominent in Roman society (little is known of other Italian societies before their enfranchisement) than in Greek city-states or Hellenistic kingdoms (see slavery). In ...
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