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Sulla almost certainly received a normal education for his class, grounded in ancient Greek and Latin classics. [15] Sallust declares him well-read, intelligent, and he was fluent in Greek. [19] Regardless, by the standards of the Roman political class, Sulla was a very poor man. [20] His first wife was called either Ilia or Julia.
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.
The March on Rome of 88 BC was a coup d'état by the consul of the Roman Republic Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who seized power against his enemies Marius and Sulpicius, after they had ousted him from Rome. It was the first time in Roman history that a general ordered his army to march against the Republic. In 88 BC, Sulla was elected consul and ...
200,000 dead. 200,000 captured. The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. [5] The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the ...
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 ...
50,000 killed. 50,000 killed. c.100,000 killed in total [ 2 ] The Social War (from Latin bellum sociale, "war of the allies"), also called the Italian War or the Marsic War, [ 3 ] was fought largely from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of its autonomous allies (socii) in Italy. Some of the allies held out until 87 BC.
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of Romulus ...