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For discussion of the life of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, and Rome in his time.
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Caesar's Contemporaries
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 Lucius Cornellius Sulla
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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.
Sulla bears many similarities to Caesar and his conservative efforts to remove Rome's institutions from the influence of the populares influenced Caesar's own later career. For a time, Sulla proscribed the young Caesar, who had to flee for his life. His struggles with Gaius Marius, and the bloodbaths that followed them, were an ominous portent of events to come.
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Sulla and Caesar (* Calpurnia Caesar, Jan 3, 2008 - 04:47 ) No Caesar Without Sulla (* Heraklia Aelius, Jan 1, 2008 - 11:11 ) Thirsty? (* Calpurnia Caesar, Dec 30, 2007 - 07:55 ) what can i say.... (* Tiberius Nero Maximus, Dec 29, 2007 - 08:37 ) Proscriptions (* Heraklia Aelius, Mar 8, 2006 - 13:13 ) Reconsidering Sulla II (* Cimon Aristocratos, Mar 3, 2006 - 16:04 ) Pro-Caesar, Anti-Sulla (* Heraklia Aelius, Mar 3, 2006 - 10:46 ) Going out on a limb here (* Cornellia Cornelius, Mar 3, 2006 - 08:21 ) Ahhhh, Cimon! (* Heraklia Aelius, Feb 22, 2006 - 10:42 ) Sulla was no visionary (* Theodorius Cicero, Feb 17, 2006 - 14:46 ) Sulla Reconsidered (* Cimon Aristocratos, Feb 17, 2006 - 09:44 ) Murder and Politics (* Heraklia Aelius, Dec 13, 2005 - 13:09 ) Diphthongs and Sulla (* Demetrios Xanthippos, May 28, 2004 - 04:43 ) The Social War (* Heraklia Aelius, May 21, 2004 - 11:04 ) Close, but no ceegar (* Aulus Sergius, May 20, 2004 - 21:43 ) More on Sulla (* Demetrios Xanthippos, May 20, 2004 - 15:59 ) LOL Favonius (* Heraklia Aelius, May 14, 2004 - 12:03 ) GREEK!? (* Favonius Cornelius, May 13, 2004 - 00:02 ) Perhaps... (* Aulus Sergius, May 12, 2004 - 23:25 ) Sylla or Sulla? (* Favonius Cornelius, May 12, 2004 - 22:26 )| 20 more |
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