Novus homo
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Homo novus (or: novus homo, Latin for "new man"; plural homines novi) was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as consul. When a man entered public life on an unprecedented scale for a high communal office, then the term used was novus civis (plural: novi cives) or "new citizen".
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See also
- New men
- New Man (utopian concept)
- Homo Ludens
- Homo Sovieticus
- Nouveau riche
- The Iliad, the first example of the comman man in literature
- Heroic fantasy, sources Roman and Greek literature for virtus and the common man
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