alliance
N. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations: a defensive alliance between Australia and New Zealand | divisions within the alliance.
Aricia
At the foot of the Alban hills (see Albanus mons), 25 km. (16 mi.) south-east of Rome, on the edge of a fertile volcanic depression (vallis Aricina); the impressive viaduct ...
Ariminum
On the Adriatic, was an Umbrian and Gallic settlement, which became a Latin colony (see ius Latii) in 268 bc (Velleius Paterculus 1. 14). An important harbour and road-centre, Ariminum ...
Arpinum
In Italy, a Volscian hill-town (see Volsci) in the Liris valley, modern Arpino, with interesting polygonal walls. Rome captured Arpinum from its Samnite conquerors and gave it civitas sine suffragio ...
Bacchiads
Aristocrats of Corinth, claimed Heraclid descent from King Bacchis. After suppressing the kingship c.750 bc they ruled, 200 in number, until Cypselus overthrew them c.657. Corinth's western interests ...
Caerites
(Caeretans) were the inhabitants of the Etruscan city of Caere. But the name was also applied to a category of Roman citizens, and occurs in the phrase tabulae Caeritum (‘tables ...
Capua
By c.600 bc, Capua was an Etruscan city and head of a league of twelve cities. The surrounding area was known as the ager Campanus (see campania). After 474, when the Etruscans were defeated by a ...
Caracalla
(ad 188–217), nicknamed Caracalla, emperor ad 198–217. Elder son of L. Septimius Severus, originally called Septimius Bassianus; renamed after Marcus Aurelius and made Caesar in 195. Augustus in 198, ...
civitas
In Antiquity the term civitas designated the territory put under the authority of a capital town. In Gaul, in Germany, in Britain, this territory usually corresponded to that occupied by ...
Claudius
(10 bc–54 ad)Roman emperor (41–54 ad). He spent his early life engaged in historical study, prevented from entering public life by his physical infirmity; he was proclaimed emperor after the murder ...
commercium
Was the right of any Latinus (see Latini) to own Roman land and to enter into contracts with a Roman that were according to the forms of Roman law and ...
Cornelius Balbus, Lucius
(RE 70)nephew of L. Cornelius Balbus (1) and distinguished as ‘Balbus minor’ in Cicero's letters, received the Roman citizenship with his uncle. In 49 and 48 bc he undertook ...
cosmopolitanism
The philosophical idea that human beings have equal moral and political obligations to each other based solely on their humanity, without reference to state citizenship, national identity, religious ...
Cumae
(Gk. Cӯmē),Euboean colony, founded c.740 bc opposite Pithecusae. It was the earliest colony on the Italian mainland, and dominated coastal Campania from 700, in turn founding Neapolis, Dicaearchia ...
Formiae
On the via Appia above Gaeta. A Volscian settlement, it was given part-citizen rights (sine suffragio) in 338 bc, and the full franchise in 188 bc (see citizenship, Roman). It ...
freedmen
Emancipated slaves were more prominent in Roman society than in Greek city‐states or Hellenistic kingdoms (see slavery). Lat. lībertus/a designates the ex‐slave in relation to former owner ...
freedom
Freedom ride in the US, an organized ride in buses or other public transport as a demonstration against racial segregation; the term was used particularly in the context of civil rights ...
freedom in the ancient world
The distinction free–unfree is attested in the earliest Greek and Roman texts (Linear B, Homer, Twelve Tables). As ‘chattel slavery’ became predominant, earlier status plurality was often replaced by ...
Fundi
A Volscian town on the via Appia. It obtained Roman citizenship early (sine suffragio, 338 bc; full franchise, 188 bc), and became a prosperous municipium. It has fine walls (originally ...
Interstate Relations
The formal study of international relations (IR) can be said to have begun in 1919 with Sir Alfred Zimmern's appointment as Chair of International Politics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. ...
