Senate of Rome

GPTKB entity

Statements (60)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:government_agency
gptkb:legislative_body
gptkbp:country gptkb:Ancient_Rome
gptkbp:dissolved AD 603
gptkbp:established 7th century BC
gptkbp:function gptkb:international_relations
legislative authority
financial control
advisory body to magistrates
religious oversight
gptkbp:historicalPeriod gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkb:Roman_Republic
Roman Kingdom
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Senate of Rome
gptkbp:location gptkb:Rome
gptkbp:mainLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:meetingPlace gptkb:Curia_Julia
gptkbp:membership patricians
plebeians (later periods)
gptkbp:nativeName gptkb:Senatus
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:reforms_of_Sulla
assassination of Julius Caesar
conflict with the populares
passing of the Senatus Consultum Ultimum
reforms of Augustus
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Cicero
gptkb:Julius_Caesar
gptkb:Gaius_Gracchus
gptkb:Marcus_Junius_Brutus
gptkb:Tiberius_Gracchus
gptkb:Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla
Augustus
Cato the Younger
Scipio Africanus
gptkbp:numberOfMembers varied (100 to 900+)
gptkbp:powers ratify treaties
appoint provincial governors
control public finances
declare war and peace
issue decrees (senatus consulta)
oversee foreign policy
supervise religion
gptkbp:presidedBy gptkb:Princeps_Senatus
gptkb:Censors
Consuls
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Roman
gptkb:Roman_Forum
gptkb:Curia_Julia
gptkb:Curia_Hostilia
gptkb:SPQR
gptkb:Roman_assemblies
gptkb:Curia_Cornelia
gptkb:Roman_Constitution
Roman magistrates
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Byzantine_Senate
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:SPQR
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hadrianus
gptkb:Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Albinus
gptkb:Gaius_Julius_Caesar_(the_dictator)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6