Lucius Cornelius Sulla

the family. Around that time Caesar married Cornelia Cinna, who was the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Lucius Cinna was a significant member of the Popular faction. At the movement Lucius Cornelius Sulla was the dictator and he commanded Caesar to divorce Cornelia. Caesar escaped into the military after he refused Sulla’s orders. Sulla death in 78 BCE insure Caesar protection enough to return back to Rome. Sulla dictatorship awarded the patricians substantially diminishing the plebeians’…

kidnapped by pirates and was released after the ransom was paid, but afterwards, he raised a fleet, captured the pirates, and crucified them. Finally, when he arrived to Rome, he was elected military tribune and ironically, married the granddaughter of Sulla. Overwhelmed with debt, Caesar turned to Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of Rome’s richest men, and Crassus paid most of his debts in return for political support against Pompey. Soon after, he served as a governor in Hispania Ulterior, where…

(notes 9/29) Cato the elder attacked his reputation mercilessly. Paulus made an alliance with the son of Scipio Africanus. (notes) Scipio Africanus the younger adopted the son of Paulus who was named Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus. (notes) This adoption was condemned by Cato the elder who saw it as a symbol of everything that was wrong with the Roman republic but could do nothing about it. The Third Punic War lasted from 149-146. At first the Romans did poorly…

The woman who raised Julius and his two sisters is Aurelia Cotta. She raised her daughters both name Julia and her son Julius, she then eventually raised her grandson Augustus. Her husband Gaius Caesar the elder, died at a young age, and before that he was gone most of the time so she was the one in charge of raising her children (15 Interesting Women of Ancient Rome). Many women in today’s world do not get the recognition they deserve for all the hard work they do. Aurelia Cotta should be…

During the late Roman Republic, Michael Parenti proposes to interpret conflicts such as power through the use of what he calls “A people’s history, therefore the title “A People’s history of ancient Rome”. In Michael Parenti’s words, “A people’s history should be not only an account of popular struggle against oppression but an expose of the anti-people’s history that has prevailed among generations of mainstream historians” (Parenti pg.11). His intention is to present the reader with a history…

History of Ancient Rome Midterm Zeno of Citium Zeno of Citium was a Greek thinker who argued that the universe was in a vacuum with particles passing through it. Therefore nothing lasted forever, even gods. There is also no afterlife. Zeno argued that there were still virtues to be had. Battle of Cannae In the second Punic war Hannibal marched his army from Spain through the Alps and into the Italian peninsula. Though he lost around a third of his men Hannibal’s forces were revitalized by galls…

The history of the Roman Empire spans several centuries, starting with the disintegration of the Roman Republic, as a result of civil wars, until 476 AD, the year of the last emperor of Rome (Gibbon 1829). The Roman Republic (res publica meaning "public affairs") is the conventional term used to define the Roman state and its provinces since the end of the Kingdom of Rome in 509 BC. The Republic lasted until the establishment of the Roman Empire in 27 BC. The Empire was a consequence of the…

transitioned into an empire. Among the emperors of Rome, Octavian Caesar was the greatest emperor Rome ever had. Rome created mankind’s first republican government that was ran by elected officials. It all started with the overthrowing of a monarch king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and in 509 BC it had a constitution that was similar to the United States Constitution. Both have the power to veto, impeach, and have a form of checks and balances, but the Roman constitution was unwritten. It…

Sulla also enacted political reform, the diverted power back to the Senate. I know where the accomplishment during this dictatorship is when Sulla took his army and marched on Rome, where his army battled Gaius Marius, another Roman general after a series of political intrigues. The unfortunate downside of seizing power in…

in roman society. He could recite poems very well, and wrote poetry, becoming a favorite among the women of Rome. Along with poetry, he was also a great writer in general. His first wife was Cornelia, whom he married. She was the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Because of that, Caesar was associated with the popular party in his early political career. His political career started after Sulla’s death in 78 BC. This allowed for Caesar to come back to Rome and become part of the consul…