Optimates

(1974) rejected both populares 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 populares, 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 assassinated. 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 the Roman province of Africa, between the Republican forces of the Optimates and forces loyal to Julius Caesar. The Republican army was commanded by...

Sacriporto – Fought between the Optimates under Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and the Populares under Gaius Marius the Younger, Optimate victory. First Battle of...

change driven by civil warfare between radical populares and conservative optimates, the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men...

The Optimatoi (Greek: Ὀπτιμάτοι, from Latin: Optimates, "the Best Men") were initially formed as an elite Byzantine military unit. In the mid-8th century...

in her 2010 book Beyond Populares and Optimates, rejecting the idea of a division between populares and optimates grounded in political party, ideology...

an enemy of Julius Caesar and a strong supporter of the aristocratic (optimates) party in the late Roman Republic. He was Nero's great-great-grandfather...