Roman priests The two most ... During the time of Julius Caesar, there were 16 of these priests, half of which were patrician, with the other half plebeian. The pontifices determined festival ...

Upon the overthrow of the last Roman king in 509 BC, patricians had complete control of the Senate, as well as two consuls, analogous to the executive branches of United States government.

Patricians and plebeians were not "classes" in the modern sense of the term. According to Roman myth, the patricians were descended from the original senators appointed by Rome's founder, Romulus ...

In his Roman History, Dio Cassius recounts that “the shoes worn by the patricians in the city were adorned with straps intertwined and the design of the letter, to indicate that they descended from ...

Recent genetic research led by Krishna Veeramah, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, has shed new light on the social dynamics and community ...