Transcript Introduction to Greek and Roman History

Introduction to Greek and Roman History
Lecture 15
Sulla’s reforms and legacy
i.
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.
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