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Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138BC-78 BC)

By M elissa J ohnson. Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138BC-78 BC). About Sulla. He came to prominence most of all in the Social War (91-89 BC). In 88 BC Mithridates, The King of Pontus, went and attacked the Roman province of Asia.

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138BC-78 BC)

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  1. By Melissa Johnson Lucius Cornelius Sulla(138BC-78 BC)

  2. About Sulla He came to prominence most of all in the Social War (91-89 BC). In 88 BC Mithridates, The King of Pontus, went and attacked the Roman province of Asia. There was 80'000 Romans and Italians and they were massacred. The senate decided that Sulla, who was one of the current consuls, to be commander of the army against Mithridates. The Tribune of the People Suplicus Rufus called for the command to be changed and given to Marius. The concilium plebis backed the proposal , but then Sulla proved a man who was not to be messed with. He marched to Rome at the head of six legions and forced the reversal of this decision.

  3. His different battles • First march on Rome • First Mithridatic War • Siege of Athens • Battle of Chaeronea • Battle of Orchomenus

  4. Images of Sulla drawing statue

  5. His Siege • In 88 Sulla set off for Greece in charge of the war against Mithradates. By the spring of 87 most of Greece was in his power, and after a long siege he captured Athens in 86. • Mithradates’ general, Archelaus, was pursued into Boeotia and finally defeated in two battles in 86.

  6. Near the end of his life • Sulla resigned and withdrew to the neighbourhood of Puteoli in Campania. • This action caused a sensation in Rome; many different explanations have been given, starting with the classical writers. Most commonly accepted is the view that Sulla’s resignation was an act of honesty by a man who had pledged to step down as soon as his reforms had been carried out. • Henceforth a private citizen, he continued to write his memoirs. Active to his very last days, Sulla was struck down by a fever in the spring of 78. He left behind two children by Metella and a posthumous daughter by his fifth wife, Valeria.

  7. His Family • Wife:Ilia • Daughter: Cornelia Sulla • Son: Lucius Cornelius Sulla • Wife:Aelia (div.) • Wife:CaeciliaMetellaDalmatica • Son: Faustus Cornelius Sulla • Daughter:Fausta Cornelia Sulla • Wife: Valeria Messala • Daughter:Postuma Cornelia Sulla • Boyfriend:Metrobius (actor, long term lover)

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