Summary: During the year of Pompey and Crassus' consulship (70 BC), the people pressured the two of them to prevent the return of civil war and to pass the lex Licinia P…
Summary: Between the summer of 73 and the spring of 71, Spartacus and 70 gladiators fled their ludus in Capua and revolted. After escaping the city militia, he defeated …
Summary: After the death of Sertorius in 73, his armies and the cities he had sided with him revolted against Perperna, whom he had appointed as his heir. Perperna manag…
Summary: In 75, as a result of supply difficulties in Rome and the famine that followed, the urban plebs of Rome revolted and attacked the consuls Octavius and Cotta. Se…
Summary: Between 76 and 71, five tribunes (Sicinius, Opimius, Quinctius, Macer and Palicanus) publicly demanded the restoration of all the powers of the tribune of the p…
Summary: Sertorius initiated an alliance with Mitridates just before the Third Mithridatic War (76): providing financial and military support, the King of Pontus demande…
Summary: At the beginning of 77, the armies of Lepidus, on the one hand, and the armies of Catulus and/or Pompey, on the other, met on the periphery of Rome, either at t…
Summary: In 77, Pompey's army was ready to meet the army of Lepidus' legate, Brutus, at Modena (Mutina), in Cisalpine Gaul, but Brutus surrendered to Pompey without figh…
Summary: In the second half of 78, elections were held without the presidency of the consul Lepidus, who refused to return from Etruria. The two 77 consuls elected were …
Summary: During the first months of his 78 consulship, Lepidus promised to help the tribunes fully restore the tribunitia potestas, but then changed his mind.
Summary: Between 78 and 76 BC, perhaps as a supporter of Lepidus, Atilius Bulbus attempted to provoke a mutiny in Illyricum. He was seen and denounced by the governor, C…
Summary: Between Sulla's death and that of Sertorius (78-72), Sertorius and his supporters conducted a war that transcended factional quarrels and was described by their…
Summary: Between 78 and 73, Sertorius implemented a series of measures and institutions in Hispania that gave his government a certain degree of autonomy: he won the sym…
Summary: Between the governorship of Sertorius in spain (late 83 or 82), after his flight from italy, and the death of Sulla (early 78), Sertorius and his supporters con…
Summary: Between 89 and 66, the gentes which revolved around the figure of St. Abbius Oppianicus (Abbii, Aurii, Cluentii and Vibii) fought each other in Larinum and Rome…
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