Introduction to Greek and Roman History

Introduction to Greek and Roman HistoryLecture 15

Sulla’s reforms and legacyi. 

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC,Rome mint. R/ FAVSTVS before, diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring and double necklace of pearls and pendants, and jewels in hair pulled into a knot; crescent above, lituus behind. V/ FELIX at upper right, Sulla seated left on a raised seat; before him kneels Bocchus, offering an olive-branch; behind, Jugurtha kneeling left, wearing beard, hands tied behind his back.

Pompeii

The Social War, 91-88 B.C.

Drusus’ tribunate, 91

-Equestrian were required to give up their juridical posts and compensated with 300 seats in the Senate

-Allies were offered Roman citizenship

-Resumption of land reform and improvement of grain supply in Rome

-Drusus is killed, a praetor is assassinated in Asculum, revolt breaks out.

APULIA

The Social War, 91-88 B.C.

UMBRIA

The Italian confederacy takes oath against Rome

Italy after the Social War

-Rome controlled the whole of the Italian peninsula from the Po river to the Strait of Messina.

-All former colonies and allied communities became municipia.

- Number of citizens rose from 394,000 to 963,000

88: Mithridates invades the province of Asia

First Mithridatic War

The Peace of Dardanus

-Return of all of Mithridates’ conquests in Asia Minor and the Aegean

-Return of all the prisoners and deserters

-Assumption of all the costs for the maintenance of Sulla’s army

-War indemnity of 2,000 talents

Praeneste

Sulla’s dictatorship (82-80)

• Tribunate is emasculated

•Liquidation of political opponents

•Property redistribution

•Strengthen senatorial rule

• Number of praetors from 6 to 8, quaestors from 16 to 20