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  CalendarHome.com - Julius Caesar - Calendar Encyclopedia
When Sulla emerged as the winner of this civil war and began his program of proscriptions, Caesar, not yet 20 years old, was in a bad position.
As the wife of the Pontifex and an important matrona, Pompeia was responsible for the organization of the Bona Dea festival in December.
Lysander and Sulla - Numa and Lycurgus - Pelopidas and Marcellus - Philopoemen and Flamininus - Phocion and Cato the Younger - Pompey and Agesilaus
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla at AllExperts
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, or family, of impeccable aristocratic (patrician) background but at the time financially challenged.
Sulla is generally credited as being the prime mover in the defeat of the tribes (Catulus being a hopeless general and quite incapable of cooperating with Marius).
Sulla's innovation could be said to have come of age 2,000 years later at the battle of the Somme.
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 Wikinfo | Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Sulla was born in an impoverished branch of the Cornelii gens, or family, of aristocratic patrician stock but without influence in the city.
The means by which Sulla attained the fortune that enabled him to ascend to senatorial rank are not clear, although some sources refer to family inheritances.
By 81 BC Sulla was appointed dictator for life by the senate and accomplished total control of the city of Rome.
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 Wikipedia:Julius Caesar - The Lost Podcast Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Both distinguished themselves in the Social War, and both wanted command of the war against Mithridates, which was initially given to Sulla; but when Sulla left the city to take command of his army, a tribune passed a law transferring the appointment to Marius.
Marius was forced into exile, but when Sulla left on campaign he returned, and he and his ally Lucius Cornelius Cinna seized the city and declared Sulla a public enemy.
Sulla began a series of bloody proscriptions against his political enemies.
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla:
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, of impeccable Patrician background, but his family, by the time of his birth, had fallen to an impoverished condition.
While in the East, Sulla was the first Roman magistrate to meet a Parthian ambassador, Orobazus, and by taking the seat between the Parthian ambassador and the ambassador from Pontus (the center seat being the place of honour), he sealed, perhaps unintentionally, the Parthian ambassador's fate.
Sulla can be seen as setting the precedent for Julius Caesar's dictatorship, and the eventual end of the Republic under Augustus.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 491 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It represents on the obverse a war-galley with a column, on which Neptune is standing, and on the reverse Scylla holding an oar in her two hands, and in the act of striking.
pompeia, the daughter of the triumvir, married Faustus Sulla.
29, and Scribonia ; the latter of whom was a daughter of Scribonius Libo and of Pompeia, the daughter of Sex.
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 Faustus (I) Cornelius Sulla Summary
Sulla raised important cavalry forces for Marius and was responsible for the capture of Jugurtha.
Sulla marched on Rome and by 82 B.C., having defeated the Marians and their Samnite allies, was in command at the capital.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla was the head of the branch of the Patrician family Cornelius cognimated Sulla, a family consisting only of himself, and his cousin Publius Cornelius Sulla, adherant to Faustus' nephew by marriage Gaius Julius Caesar.
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, of impeccable Patrician background, but his family, by the time of his birth, had fallen to an impoverished condition.
Sulla’s chief of staff was Lucullus, who went ahead of him to scout the way and negotiate with Bruttius Sura, the existing Roman commander in Greece.
Sulla however patiently bided his time, despite the insults hurled from the walls of Athens by Aristion and his followers, alluding to Sulla’s complexion (aggravated by the sun and heat) to the effect that his face looked like mulberry sprinkled with flour.
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Military History Wiki
Sulla was born into an impoverished branch of the Cornelii gens, or family, of aristocratic patrician stock but without influence in the city.
With Sulla's assistance, Catulus defeated the Cimbri in the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC.
By 81 BC Sulla was appointed dictator (with no limit on time in office) by the senate and had total control of the city of Rome.
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 Cornelia59   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Her child, Pompeia Sulla would become the second wife of Julius Ceasar.
Sulla's second wife was name Aelia, whom little is known and his fourth wife was named Valeria who was pregnant when Sulla died.
Sulla, ignoring the Roman 'anti-luxury laws' that he himself had drafted, organized a spectacular state funeral for his wife.
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 Pompeia: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
61 b.c., Roman matron, wife of Julius Caesar, daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus and granddaughter of Sulla.
The Pompeians stood for the authority of the senate...expiry of the term granted by the lex Pompeia Licinia of 55, even if that be as late...
In 62 b.c., Clodius and Caesars second wife, Pompeia, were involved in a scandal concerning the violation of the secret rites of Bona Dea, and Caesar obtained a divorce, saying...
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 Cornelia48   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The letters COS refer to Sulla as being a Consul member.
On the front of this coin is a curule chair with a litus, or crooked staff to the left of the image and a wreath to the right.
Most books of reference tend to believe that Sulla is on the front of both coins.
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 HNN - HuntingtonNews.Net
The young Caesar, as Cinna's son-in-law, was one of Sulla's targets for execution and at some point he had to flee Rome to run for his life.
Sulla later pardoned Caesar and his family and allowed him to return to Rome, however, he foresaw in him “….many a Marius” who would destroy the Republic and the nobles.
Pompeia Sulla was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus and Cornelia Sulla the daughter of the Dictator Sulla, so through marriage Caesar actually became the grand-son-in-law of the dictator who had died in 78 BC.
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 Julius Caesar
Becomes flamen dialis, a priest of Jupiter, but the title is taken away, and he is proscribed by Sulla.
Sulla dies; Caesar returns to Rome, refusing to join Lepidus' insurrection..
Is accused of causing Pompey's divorce from Mucia.
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 SOEPS Graduate Student Site at NYIT
When he heard that his archenemy, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, was preparing for the war against the king of Pontus in Asia Minor (today's Turkey) in 87 B.C., he decided to come out of his retirement.
He joined the military and stationed in Asia Minor until Sulla died in 78 B.C. While spending his time guarding the Roman Republic's territory, Caesar won many important battles and quickly became known for his genius in military operations.
This time, he chose Sulla's granddaughter, Pompeia Sulla, to be his next wife.
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 Gaius Julius Caesar
Sulla is the first Roman general to act against the state in this way, and set a dangerous and often repeated sentiment.
Sulla soon became the first state sanctioned Dictator that ignored the traditional usage and circumstances of that ancient office.
In the spring of 78 BC Sulla died of an intestinal illness, worms in the bowls.
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Pompeia was the daughter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great).
Pompeia and Faustus Cornelius Sulla, quaestor in 54, were to marry.
Pompeia gave birth to Cornelia (7), whose son became consul in 11
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It was suggested at the time that Clodius wore the disguise in order to carry on an intrigue with Pompeia Sulla, Caesar's wife.
(Whether or not the allegation was true of Clodius' seeking an affair with Pompeia Sulla, Caesar divorced her in short order to avoid even the hint of impropriety in his spouse.) He was detected and brought to trial, but escaped condemnation by bribing the jury.
Clodius' possible involvement with Caesar's second wife Pompeia and his attempt to attend the secret rites of the Bona Dea are mentioned (though these events are transplanted in time).
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 Roman Timeline of the First Century BC
84 BC The new Italian citizens enfranchised by the lex Julia, lex Pompeia and lex Papiria are redistributed throughout all thirty-five tribes of Rome.
82 BC Cornelius Sulla is victorious at the battle of the Coline Gate at Rome.
68 BC Julius Caesar marries Pompeia Sulla, the granddaughter of Sulla and a relative of Gn.
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 Vacilando.org on Julius Caesar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marius was forced into exile and command was returned to Sulla, but when Sulla left on campaign Marius returned, and he and his ally Lucius Cornelius Cinna seized the city and declared Sulla a public enemy.
Sulla was elected to a second consulship before retiring to private life.
He was elected aedile, restored the trophies of Marius's victories, brought prosecutions against men who had benefited from Sulla's proscriptions, spent a great deal of money on public works and games, and outshone his colleague Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus.
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Sulla entered into an alliance with Rufus by marrying his daughter to Quintus Pompeius Rufus's son of the same name.
Rufus's and Sulla's granddaughter Pompeia was married to Julius Caesar in 67
because of Pompeia's alleged indiscretion with Clodius during the celebration of the mysteries of Bona Dea.
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 Astrology of Julius Caesar with horoscope chart, quotes, biography, and images
Sulla marches on Rome with his army; caputres the city; repeals legislation and passes laws strengthening the Senate.
Sulla impounds Cornelia's dowry and strips Caesar of office of flamen dialis.
As the wife of the Pontifex and an important matrona (Latin: married woman), Pompeia was responsible for the organization of the Bona Dea festival in December.
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 Forum Romanum
Pompeia Cornelia, there is no "limiting" provincial governments.
Sulla: Of course your against limits, Propraetor, your provincia has utilized the most titles and stands the best chance of getting of bloating the Comitia Centuriata.
Sulla: I am sorry, I am not willing to remove the limits, I would rather remove the law from consideration than to open up the Comitia Centuriata to possible abuse.
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 Sulla
The government of Rome (ie Cinna) then sent out Lucius Valerius Flaccus with an army to relieve Sulla of command in the east.
In total control of the city and its affairs, Sulla instituted a reign of terror, akin to, and in response to that which Marius and Cinna implemented while they were in control during Sulla's absence.
The symptoms described in contemporary accounts indicate that the cause of death was liver failure, brought on by a lifetime of hard work and hard partying.
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 The Life of Julius Caesar
For one thing, Sulla ordered Julius to divorce Cornelia, since she was from the family of one Sulla's enemies.
Caesar refused and instead went into hiding, in order to avoid a certain death sentence for refusing to obey the dictator's wishes.
He was eventually pardoned and later returned to Rome when Sulla died, in 78 B.C. Julius
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It is possible that the Lex Pompeia also provided that some `'4 app.
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They then jointly passed a law (Lex Pompeia Licinia) which continued Caesar in office as proconsul of Gaul by forbidding any discussion of his successor until i March...
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 Caesar and Politics
He not only praised his aunt in a stirring public speech, but for this first time since Sulla, he displayed the popular images of Gaius Marius.
Praising the deeds of Marius, and publicly proclaiming his descent from the fourth King of Rome, Ancus Marcius, and the goddess Venus, he certainly developed considerable enmity among the conservative Senators.
It's difficult to determine what, if any role Caesar may have actually played, but it's sufficient to note that while he was accused of treason, he was not convicted.
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