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Coin with a Roman magistrate and two lictores carrying fasces |
Consul
Consul: Roman magistrate, comparable with a prime minister or a president. Under the empire, the office was prestigious but unimportant. A…Cursus honorum
Cursus honorum: the "sequence of offices" in the career of a Roman politician. A Roman magistrate and two lictors carrying fasces In…Decuriones
Decuriones or Curiales: members of the town councils in the Roman municipalities. Relief showing the two mayors of a Roman town Just…Dictator
Dictator: Roman magistrate with extraordinary powers, appointed during an emergency. The word dictator originally meant "the one who dictates" or "gives orders". The negative connotation is a later development. …DNc
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.[King Darius the Great was buried at Naqš-e Rustam. The inscriptions on the upper and central registers of…DNd
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.[King Darius the Great was buried at Naqš-e Rustam. The inscriptions on the upper and central registers of…Ephor
Ephor (Greek: ἔφορος) “overseer”: name of an annually elected official in ancient Sparta and its colonies Thera and Cyrene.Origin The origin of the ephorate is not known. Writing in the mid fifth-century, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus states that it…Eye of the King
Eye of the king (Old Persian Spasaka?): inspector in the Achaemenid empire. Sometimes called "eyes and ears".In his charming description of the youth of the founder of the Achaemenid empire, Cyrus the Great, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus suggests…
Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers |
First Triumvirate
Triumvir or tresvir: member of a college of three members. The expression is mostly used to describe the First Triumvirate (60 BCE; Pompey the Great, Crassus, and Julius Caesar) and Second Triumvirate (43 BCE; Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian). …
Firuzabad, Relief 2, Courtiers |