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simultainious capture of biythinia and cappadocia
mithradates around 90 bc
ariobarzanes
lawful king of cappadocia when mithradates took it
nicomedes 4
son of nicomees 3 lawful king of bithynia
manius aquilius
comsul 101 along with marius, roman envoy, encouraged nicoedes 4 to raid pontus
90 bc east-retal
nicomedes raids pontus
mithradates vs nicomedes and aquilius
sweeps roman army and nicomedes in 90 and then pours molten gold on tyhe head of aquilius as retrebution
mithradates conquests in 88/89
murders 80,000 romans(exagerated) and takes much of asia but notably not rhodes
mithradates in delos
masaceres 20,000 italians, naval
mithradtes at athens in 88
makes athens rebel to join him, made the port, piraeus, his base of navel opperations in greece
consul 88
sulla
tribune 88
sulpicius rufus
gave up election in 89
rufus
sulpicius’ bill (lex sulpica? possibly publia?)
(1) to enroll the new Italian citizens as well as the freedmen in all the thirty-five tribes, \
(2) to recall all exiles,
(3) to exclude from the senate all members owing bills in excess of 2000 denarii (in orderto prevent bribery and corruption),
(4) to replace Sulla with Marius in the command against Mithridates.
sula run pout of rome
sulla leaves his army at nola
declares religios holidays to prevent sulpicius’ bill, caused a riot which sulla only survived by hiding in marius’ house and was then allowed to go into exile
sulla’s first march
Nola to Rome, declared marius, sulpicius and ten others enamies of the state, executed sulpicius afer he is betrayed by a slave, repealed sulpicius’ legisltion, exiled marus to north africa,
later after math of sulla’s first march
intrest rate to 10%, optimate power constitutionally enshrined, made cinna swear not to make changes untill he was back.
Licinius Lucullus no.1
aristocratic officer in sulla’s first march
consuls 87
cinna and gnaeus octavius
cinna driven from rome
mob caused by octavius
cinna and marius’ march on rome
marius cuts off ostia while cinna comes from nola, they take rome quickly
marius’ reigh of terror in 86
crshing and horrifing even to cinna
death of marius
desiese in 86 after his 7th consulship
marius’ replacement as consul
Lucius Valerius Flaccus
consuls 85, 84
Gnaeus papirius carbo and cinna
cinna and flaccus’ reforms
italians in all 35 tribes not untill 84 and then 70, flaccus forgave 3/4 of debt, cioinage resored
death of cinna
mutiny in 84 at Ancona
sulla v athens
seiges in the winter finally taking it in 86 agains archelaus
sulla victories in battle 86(not seige)
ochomenus and chaeroneia
Flaccus and fimbria
flacus is ppointed bu cinna, sulla doesnt give him the army but some go anyway flaccus merches east to fight mithradates ut is murdered by fimbria who defeats mithradtes’ son
treaty of dardanus
85- mithridic conquests undone, 2000-3000 talents given to rome, asia has to pay 20,000 talents, back taxes, and care for his troops, Bithynia and Cappadocia to their former kings and gave Paphlagonia
back to Bithynia.
Flaccus’ replacement
lucius licinius murena
sertorius when sulla showed up
rejected by former marians so he goes to hispania narbonensis
sulla landing in italy #2
in brundisium, takes over one consular army, beats the other
sulla recruits(generals)
cecilius mettellus pius, crassus, pompey
pompey brought to the table
three picenum legions, given name magnus
“consuls” 82
carbo and marous the younger
marius #2 defeated
praeneste in 82
colline gate
saminites rise against sulla, crass beats them on the right wing despite sulla’s left wing filning
sulla at bolona
6000 saminites executes while sulla speaks to the senate
proscriptions
90 senators, 15 men of consular rank and 2600 equites killed and their slaves freed and sold off their property
sulla vs his former opposing cities
suspected cities lost their walls, much of their teritory and indemnities
true resistors were destroyed and their populations were sold into slavery
cities destroyed entierely under sulla
praeneste, florence
lex valeria
made sulla the first dictator sice cunctator
sulla reforms
doubled senate mad esenate the juries, abolished principus senatus, abolished tribunate, reformed courts, 10 years between consulships, made minimus ages for offices,
lex villia annalis
codifies the cusus honorum
cyrenacia province
bequethed by ptolomy apion, made provice by sulla
maistas
governers cant start war, or do non governer things
retirement of sulla
after the consulship of 80 to puteoli then died of a hemorrage in 78
sulla grave inscription
no one supassed him in good for freinds or evil for enamie