In many ways, the town and surrounding area are still defined by the ideas and lifestyle of America's first-landed patricians. The history of Charlottesville goes back to the 1730s, when it was a ...

What did the Romans call rich people? It is patrician. As early Roman society was divided into classes, the patricians were at the top of the social ladder. One's economic status determined every ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

CORIOLANUS is not one of Shakespeare’s most popular or frequently performed plays. But, after seeing the riveting production ...

Patricians Versus the Poor The die was cast in 486 BC. After Rome defeated the neighboring Hernici, a Latin tribe, and took two-thirds of their land, the consul Spurius Cassius proposed Rome’s ...

Benedict's reputation for holiness grew, and Roman patricians began bringing their children to him for education. In response to this demand, he established schools for them. He also worked to ...

the people against the elite and the plebians against the patricians. During the height of Jacksonian democracy, which ...

BCE, rapid socio-economic change was afoot for the plebeian farmers of the Roman Republic. According to the traditional historical narrative, these citizen farmers, who owned family-run smallholdings, ...