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Sulla had total control of the city and Republic of Rome, except for Hispania (which the prominent Marian general Quintus Sertorius had established as an independent state). This unusual appointment (used hitherto only in times of extreme danger to the city, such as during the Second Punic War , and then only for 6-month periods) represented an ...
Politics of ancient Rome. The constitutional reforms of Sulla were a series of laws enacted by the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla between 82 and 80 BC, reforming the constitution of the Roman Republic in a revolutionary way. In the decades before Sulla had become dictator, Roman politics became increasingly violent. [1]
Sulla's civil war. Sulla's civil war was fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction (usually called the Marians or the Cinnans after their former leaders Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna), in the years 83–82 BC. The war ended with a decisive battle just outside Rome itself.
Sulla soon made peace with Mithridates, [67] and in 83 BC, he returned to Rome, overcame all resistance, and captured the city again. [68] Sulla and his supporters then slaughtered most of Marius' supporters, [67] although one such supporter, a 17-year-old populare (and the son-in-law of Cinna) named Julius Caesar, was ultimately spared.
In 88 BC, an aristocratic senator named Lucius Cornelius Sulla was elected Consul, [25] and soon left for a war in the east. When a Tribune revoked Sulla's command of the war, Sulla brought his army back to Italy, marched on Rome, secured the city, and left for the east again. [26] In 83 BC he returned to Rome, and captured the city a second ...
The lex Valeria was a law in 82 BC which established the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. [1] Going around the traditional process for nominating a dictator, the law ratified Sulla's previously illegal actions (especially his proscriptions) and facilitated Sulla's goal of effecting large scale reforms to the Roman Republic by granting him constituent legislative power.
Sulla responded by suborning his army, marching on Rome (the city was undefended but politically outraged), and declaring Marius and 11 of his allies outlaws before departing east to war with Mithridates. [140] Marius, who had escaped into exile, returned, and with L. Cornelius Cinna, took control of the city. [141]
Sulla's proscription. The proscription of Sulla was a reprisal campaign by the Roman proconsul and later dictator, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, to eliminate his enemies in the aftermath of his victory in the civil war of 83–82 BC. Following his victory at the battle of the Colline Gate, Sulla wanted to take his revenge against the former ...