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Aedes Divi Iulii: Julius Caesar and His Times

For discussion of the life of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, and Rome in his time.

Caesar's Contemporaries (8 threads, 728 posts)

Lucius Cornellius Sulla (68 posts)

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Sulla (138-78 BC) was the first general to march on Rome with an army demanding ultimate power. Like Caesar, he was a famous general and bitter enemy of his former mentor, Gaius Marius. Sulla's grab for power and the proscriptions he instituted in becoming dictator of Rome almost led to the death of the young Julius Caesar and strongly influenced Caesar's later career. ...

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Author: * Favonius Cornelius - 3 Posts on this thread out of 1,097 Posts sitewide.
Date: May 11, 2004 - 15:51

"Let's see if I can get this right! In the third century BC the old patrician aristocracy, based on birth, disappeared, to be replaced by a new aristocracy, comprising patricians and wealthier plebeians who obtained office and entry into the senate."

What happened to them? Died in the Punic War? Or the families just eventually petered out?

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