CLA2104 Lecture 4: Sulla & Pompey
25 Jan 2018
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The eighties are marked by more violence and the emergence of a dictator, lucius. Sulla was a patrician fallen on hard times. He had a reputation for supporting the senate. He was an o cer in jugurthine and celtic wars. Commanded against mithridates 88-85 bc (first mithridatic war: marched on rome to secure command. Rome was under the control of cinna. Sulla established himself as dictator and then implemented reforms. In less than two years after sulla, an individual is already advocating for the retraction of sulla"s reforms. Patrician families lost their fortune as a result of land devaluations. In order to get his command against mithridates, he marched on rome. South shore of black sea: bithynia, paphlagonia, pontus. Roman ruin of the syrian kingdom in 2nd c. bc created a dangerous power void in. Sulla as governor in asia (92 bc) had been mandated to keep order in this area. Keep roman friendly kings on cappadocian throne.
