As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class ... They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to be property. They did a wide variety of work, from looking after the home ...

They and their families became known as the patricians (aristocratic class), while the rest of Rome’s free population were plebeians. Over time, other classes would emerge such as the equites ...

Roman worship was divided into the public and ... The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum, meaning “king of sacred things” was a patrician appointed for life and was barred from holding ...