Sulla's civil war was fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction (usually called the Marians...
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became one of Sulla's targets, and fled the city. He was saved through the efforts of his relatives, many of whom were Sulla's supporters. Sulla later noted...
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alia driving Sulla's family to flee for safety in the east. Conventional republican government had collapsed after 88, and Sulla's civil war – triggered...
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heard by senators. Sulla's bill was opposed by both moderate senators, such as the Julii Caesares, who were horrified by Sulla's ongoing massacre, and...
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Marcus Licinius Crassus (category People of Sulla's civil war)
career as a military commander under Lucius Cornelius Sulla during his civil war. Following Sulla's assumption of the dictatorship, Crassus amassed an enormous...
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Sulla's civil war. The conflict also blurred the distinction between Romans and their enemies; the presence of large armies in Italy during the war also...
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consuls Cornelius Cinna and Octavius – Cinnan victory. Sulla's civil war (83–81 BCE), fought between Sulla and Cinna's supporters – Sullan victory.[citation...
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Crisis of the Roman Republic (category Roman Republican civil wars)
culture of the nobiles and emphasis on Sulla's civil war followed by the fall of Sulla's republic in Caesar's civil war. For centuries, historians have argued...
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Pompey (category People of Sulla's civil war)
control of the Roman Senate. Sulla's return in 83 BC sparked a civil war within the Roman world. In the year prior to Sulla's return Pompey had raised and...
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Battle of the Colline Gate (category Battles of Sulla's second civil war)
alike that Sulla was on his way. Telesinus decided to wait for Sulla's arrival and deployed his army slightly away from the Colline Gate. Sulla's main army...
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Catiline (category People of Sulla's civil war)
Born to an ancient patrician family, he joined Sulla during Sulla's civil war and profited from Sulla's purges of his political enemies, becoming a wealthy...
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Quintus Sertorius (category People of Sulla's civil war)
Sertorius became praetor in the year Cinna died. On Sulla's return from the East in 83 BC a civil war broke out. Sertorius, a praetor now, was called upon...
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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC) (category People of Sulla's civil war)
was in Greece fighting the First Mithridatic War. By 82 BC, he had joined Sulla's side in the civil war; that year, or perhaps early in the next year...
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Gaius Marius (consul 82 BC) (category People of Sulla's civil war)
Jugurthine and Cimbric wars. He fought in Sulla's civil war. He committed suicide that same year at Praeneste, after his defeat by Sulla and during the city's...
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (category People of Sulla's civil war)
(nickname) Pius. During the civil wars between 88 and 80 BC, Pius sided with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He successfully commanded Sulla's forces in the northern...
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Gnaeus Papirius Carbo (consul 85 BC) (category People of Sulla's civil war)
urban plebs, moreover, feared of Sulla's response to a second civil war after hearing of Sulla's vicious sacks of Greek cities. He orchestrated the election...
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the head of Diana, to whom Sulla had paid a vow of gratitude after his victory at the Mount Tifata during Sulla's Civil War in 83 BC. Her presence on his...
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Marcus Perperna Veiento (category People of Sulla's civil war)
second civil war. After Sulla defeated the populares faction in Italy he sent his new stepson-in-law Pompey (Pompey had married Aemilia, Sulla's stepdaughter)...
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Lucius Cornelius Cinna (section War on Octavius)
homonymous son escaped Sulla's retribution by fleeing to Quintus Sertorius – one of Cinna's legates – after Sulla's civil war, before being given amnesty...
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History of Rome (Livy) (category Cultural depictions of Sulla)
to the outbreak of the Social War in 91. Books 71–90 – The civil wars between Marius and Sulla, to the death of Sulla in 78. Books 91–108 – From 78 BC...
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major armed insurrection against Rome, like Sulla's civil war that preceded it (83–81 BC) and Caesar's civil war (49–45 BC) that followed it. The main sources...
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Trajan's Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106) were two military campaigns fought between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Emperor Trajan's rule. The conflicts...
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Bellum Octavianum (category Roman Republican civil wars)
had themselves elected consuls; their faction dominated Italy until Sulla's civil war in 83 BC. The main question in Roman politics of the year 88 BC was...
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Lucullus, one of Sulla's ablest lieutenants, had fought against Mithridates during the first Mithridatic war before Sulla's civil war. Mithridates also...
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Samnites (section Social War leaders)
in the Pyrrhic War and then with Hannibal in the Second Punic War. They also fought in the Social War and later in Sulla's civil war as allies of the...
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Caesar's civil war (49–45 BC) was a civil war during the late Roman Republic between two factions led by Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus...
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Battle of Sacriportus (category Battles of Sulla's second civil war)
in April of 82 BC during Sulla's Second Civil War. The battle pitted the Optimates under the command of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix against the Populares...
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its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's civil war, making himself the first Dictator in Rome...
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Pompeia. Publius Cornelius Sulla was the son of an otherwise unknown brother of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Despite being Sulla's nephew, Publius does not seem...
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notably at the Battle of Carrhae (53 BC). During the Roman Liberators' civil war of the 1st century BC, the Parthians actively supported Brutus and Cassius...
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