During the brutal dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (82-79 B.C.), numerous “reforms” were imposed on Roman government institutions, intended to cement the control of the senatorial class and ...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla marched on the city of Rome in 88 B.C. and was a dictator. Far beyond engaging solely in imperialism and the crushing of foreign kings, ...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138-78 B.C.) came from a family that had lost its status in the top rank of Roman society — and its money, too — when his great-great-great grandfather, ...

In 88 B.C., Lucius Cornelius Sulla had also marched on Rome, the first time in the republic’s 400-year history that anyone had dared to break the sacred prohibition.

Some time around 89 B.C. —the exact year is debated—Roman forces led by the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla laid siege to the city of Pompeii, likely in response to its residents’ agitation ...