introduction to greek and roman history lecture 15 sulla’s reforms and legacy i
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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