Roman citizens
Ancient Italian inhabitants
Roman citizens were individuals who held citizenship in ancient Rome, a status that conferred significant legal rights and privileges including voting, holding public office, making contracts, and receiving protection under Roman law.
Citizenship could be acquired by birth, military service, or imperial grant, and was gradually extended beyond the city of Rome to inhabitants throughout the empire.
The phrase appears most often in historical contexts discussing the legal and social structures of the Roman world.
- patriciansHereditary ruling class
- Latin languageClassical Mediterranean language
- bread and circusesSuperficial political appeasement tactics
- public bathsShared bathing facility
- Twelve TablesEarly Roman legal code
manumission · plebeians · legal protection · tax exemption · property ownership · toga · voting rights · civic duty · military service · pater familias · senators · Augustus · tribunes · magistrates · Julius Caesar · consuls · Social War · imperial decree
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- Roman social classesplebeians, freedmen, patrons, clients
- Roman societypatrician, patricians, plebeian, plebeians, slave
- Roman LawCorpus Juris Civilis, Justinian Code, Twelve Tables, Digest, Paul
Roman citizensslaves
Persons owned by others
foreigners · non-citizens · freedmen · provincials · subjects
Roman citizensbarbarians
Uncivilized foreigners, historically
foreigners · Germanic tribes · Gauls · Carthaginians · Persians
Roman, citizens, Rome, romance, romantic, romanticism, romanticize, romantically, Romanesque