- (1974)
rejected both po****res and
optimates,
saying "such
labels obscure rather than enlighten" and
arguing that
optimates was used not as a
political label...
-
substantial domestic strife,
often anachronistically seen as a
conflict between optimates and po****res,
referring to
conservative and
reformist politicians, respectively...
- the
Optimates under Pompey at Pharsalus.
Pompey then fled to Egypt,
where to Caesar's consternation,
Pompey was ********inated. The
remaining Optimates, not...
- 54 and 53 BC),
Pompey switched to the
political faction known as the
optimates—a
conservative faction of the
Roman Senate.
Pompey and
Caesar then began...
- in her 2010 book
Beyond Po****res and
Optimates,
rejecting the idea of a
division between po****res and
optimates grounded in
political party, ideology...
- in the
Roman province of Africa,
between the
Republican forces of the
Optimates and
forces loyal to
Julius Caesar. The
Republican army was
commanded by...
- The
Optimatoi (Gr****: Ὀπτιμάτοι, from Latin:
Optimates, "the Best Men") were
initially formed as an
elite Byzantine military unit. In the mid-8th century...
-
Sacriporto –
Fought between the
Optimates under Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and the Po****res
under Gaius Marius the Younger,
Optimate victory.
First Battle of...
-
support at the time of the
Catilinarian conspiracy.
Nigidius sided with the
Optimates in the
civil war
between Julius Caesar and
Pompeius Magnus.
Among his...
- aristocracy,
meaning the rule of the most virtuous,
referred to in
Latin as
Optimates because they are
regarded as good and honorable. In his 1602 political...
