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Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla , 138 BC-78 BC, Roman general. At the height of his career he assumed the name Felix. He served under Marius in Africa and became consul in 88 BC, when Mithradates VI of Pontus was overrunning Roman territory in the east. Sulla and Marius both wanted the command against Mith... Read more
Cinna
Cinna (Lucius Cornelius Cinna) , d. 84 BC, Roman politician, consul (87 BC-84 BC), and leader of the popular party. Shortly after Cinna's first election, Sulla left Rome to fight against Mithradates VI of Pontus, having received from Cinna and Cinna's colleague Gnaeus Octavius a promise to maint... Read more
Chaeronea
Chaeronea , ancient town of Boeotia, Greece, in the Cephissus (now Kifisós) River valley and NW of Thebes. There the Athenians and Thebans were defeated (338 BC) by the Macedonians under Philip II, and in 86 BC Sulla defeated the army of Mithradates VI of Pontus under Archelaus. Chaeronea was... Read more
quaestor
quaestor , Roman magistrate, with responsibility for the treasury; in early times a quaestor also had judicial powers. At first there were two quaestors. Sulla named 20, and Caesar set 40 as the number (45 BC), but Augustus reduced them to 20. Quaestors were in theory deputies for consuls, praetors,... Read more
Quintus Roscius
Quintus Roscius , c.126 BC-62 BC, Roman actor. Born a slave at Solonium, he became the greatest comic actor of his time. From the dictator Sulla, Roscius received the honor of the gold ring signifying equestrian rank. In a lawsuit, Cicero, whom he had taught elocution, defended him by an extant orat... Read more
Samnites
Samnites , people of ancient Italy. Their country was Samnium . The Samnites were Oscan-speaking and therefore should be included among the Sabelli. The Tabula Agnonensis, a bronze tablet that carries an inscription engraved in the full Oscan alphabet, is an important record of the language. The ... Read more
dictator
dictator originally a Roman magistrate appointed to rule the state in times of emergency; in modern usage, an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes extraconstitutional powers. From 501 BC until the abolition of the office in 44 BC, Rome had 88 dictators. They were usually appointed by a consul... Read more
Pompey
Pompey (Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus) , 106 BC-48 BC, Roman general, the rival of Julius Caesar . Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 BC), a commander of equivocal reputation. The young Pompey fought for Sulla in Picenum, in Sicily, and in Africa ... Read more
Catiline
Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina) , c.108 BC-62 BC, Roman politician and conspirator. At first a conservative and a partisan of Sulla, he was praetor in 68 BC and governor of Africa in 67 BC The next year he was barred from candidacy for the consulship by false accusations of misconduct in office... Read more
Mithradates VI
Mithradates VI (Mithradates Eupator) , c.131 BC-63 BC, king of Pontus, sometimes called Mithradates the Great. He extended his empire until, in addition to Pontus, he held Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, and the Black Sea coast beyond the Caucasus. The increasing importance of Rome in Asia Minor brought ... Read more

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Lucius Cornelius Sulla , 138 BC-78 BC, Roman general. At the...overrunning Roman territory in the east. Sulla and Marius both wanted the command against...mdash;Marius as a popular leader, Sulla as a senatorial favorite. Sulla got the...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Lucius Cornelius Sulla I The Roman general and dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 B.C.) was the first man to use the army to establish a personal autocracy at Rome. Sulla first came into prominence when he served as quaestor...
Institutio "Gnosis" per la Ricérca Sulla Ipótesi della Sopravvivenza
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Institutio "Gnosis" per la Ric é rca Sulla Ip ó tesi della Sopravvivenza The Institutio "Gnosis" per la Ric é rca Sulla Ip ó tesi della Sopravvivenza (Gnosis Association for Multidisciplinary Research on the...
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Sulla, Lucius Cornelius (138–78 bc) Roman dictator (82–81 bc). Elected consul in 88 bc, he defeated Mithridates...
Pompey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the dominant figure in Rome between the abdication of Sulla in 79 B.C. and his own defeat by Julius Caesar at...he raised troops for the support of Lucius Cornelius Sulla when Sulla returned from the East to challenge the followers of...
Cinna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...party. Shortly after Cinna's first election, Sulla left Rome to fight against Mithradates VI of Pontus...s colleague Gnaeus Octavius a promise to maintain Sulla's reforms. When Sulla was safely out of Italy, Cinna revived certain anti...
Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...military force, and eventually joined Sulla when he returned to Italy from the East...mainly responsible for the final victory of Sulla over the Marians. During the subsequent...part in the conspiracies of Autronius and Sulla in 66 or of Catiline in 63, although he...
Crassus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Spain after his consulship. He was a partisan of Sulla and, after being proscribed by the followers of...unbounded avarice and ambition. He was a partisan of Sulla and commanded some of Sulla's forces. He was also a highly successful dealer...
Caius Marius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the next year he bested the Cimbri at Vercelli. Rivalry with Sulla over the command against Mithradates VI of Pontus turned into civil war; Sulla won, and Marius fled Rome. When Sulla went off to fight, Marius, now allied with the consul Cinna...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...followers were defeated by the Roman general Sulla. Caesar was spared in the proscriptions that followed the victory of Sulla, even though he refused to divorce Cornelia...Marius that had been dismantled under Sulla. Caesar was famous for his hospitality...

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Sulla
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Sulla (full name Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix ) (138–78 BC) Roman general and politician...come to prominence as a result of military successes in Africa, Sulla became involved in a power struggle with Marius, and in 88 marched...
Bianchi, Luigi
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...ed., 1922 – 1923); Lezioni sulla teoria dei gruppi di sostituzioni e delle...secondo Galois (Pisa, 1900); Lezioni sulla teoria aritmetica delle forme quadratiche...geometria analitica (Pisa, 1915); Lezioni sulla teoria delle funzioni di variabile complessa...
Bellani, Angelo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xE9; ” (1804); “ Sulla divisione decimale del pesa-licori...esperienze fatte colla pilla di Volta sulla produzione dell ’ acido muriatico...termografo ” (1811); “ Sulla deliquescenza de ’ corpi...
Corti, Bonaventura
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...originality Corti ’ s Osservazioni microscopiche sulla Tremella e sulla circolazione del fluido in una pianta acquajuola...vols. (Modena, 1769); Osservazione microscopiche sulla Tremella e sulla circolazione del fluido in una pianta...
Oddi, Ruggero
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1888), 194 – 202; “ Sulla tonicit á dello sfintere del coledoco...1894), 180 – 191; “ Sulla esistenza di speciali gangli nervosi in...1894), 376 – 388; “ Sulla fisio-patologia delle vie biliari...
Marchi, Vittorio
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...works published in journals are “ Sulla terminazione della fibra muscolare nella...1883), 114 – 117; “ Sulla fina anatomia dei corpi striati, ”...ibid ., 220 – 221; “ Sulla struttura dei talami ottici, ”...
di Venanzo, Gianni
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...You My Love ) (V. Sherman); Terrore sulla città (Majano); Kean (Gassman...mezzo (8 1/2 ) (Fellini); Le mani sulla cittá (Hands over the City...particularly in Salvatore Giuliano and Le mani sulla città. In these films he recreated...
Rima, Tommaso
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. “ Sulla cura radicale del varicocele, ”...398 – 416; and “ Sulla causa prossima delle varici alle estremit à inferiori, e sulla loro cura radicale, ” Ibid...
Loria, Gino
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...been collected in the Volume Scritti, conferenze e discorsi sulla storia delle matematiche (1937); and an overall view of the...di Torino , 2nd ser., 36 (1884), 199-297; “ Sulla classificazione delle trasformazioni razionali dello spazio...
Aldo, G. R.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Pompei ; The Last Days of Pompeii ) (L'Herbier); Cielo sulla palude (Genina) 1950 Taxi di notte (Singing Taxi Driver...and Stazione Termini. His exquisite work on Genina's Cielo sulla palude, a life of the child-saint Maria Goretti, brought...

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Sulla, Grace F.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/1/2003; 314 words ; Sulla, Grace F. Friday, August 01, 2003 Sulla, Grace F. (Nee Anderson) Of New Berlin. Passed away on...Randy) Seidens, Shirley (Red) Toellner, Donald (Mary) Sulla, Joan (Charles) Victoria and Jerry Sulla. Special grandmother...
Domanda sulla gioia.(Creative Writing)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Italica; 6/22/2006; ; 372 words ; Domanda sulla gioia La gioia: e trascendenza che mi trasporta oltre il tira-tira, l'oscuro-ossessiva costante tensione; o consiste e...
Risposta sulla gioia.(Creative Writing)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Italica; 6/22/2006; ; 411 words ; Risposta sulla gioia Forse ho trovato, amici lampeggianti, la mia risposta--che e quella der doppio "Si": Si, la gioia trascende il tirar...
LAUDE SULLA VITA DI GESÚ
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 3/1/2007; ; 450 words ; LAUDE SULLA VITA DI GES * Stefano Albarello, dir; Concentus Lucensis; I Cantori del Miserere di Sessa Aurunca * TACTUS TC 280001 (57...
Nell'autobus. Pensando all'affresco di Andrea Orcagna sulla peste di Firenze del 1300./On the bus. Thinking of Andrea Orcagna's fresco of the plague in Florence in 1300.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 1/1/2007; ; 464 words ; Nell'autobus. Pensando all'affresco di Andrea Orcagna sulla peste di Firenze del 1300 vediamo la strada con le mani delle donne sui volanti le fronti leggermente chine, le labbra chiuse...
Sulla, the elites, and the empire; a study of Roman policies in Italy and the Greek east.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 514 words ; 9789004163867 Sulla, the elites, and the empire; a study...Impact of empire; v.8 DG256 L. Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC) was a Roman consul and...University of Wales, Lampeter) presents Sulla first through his relation with the Roman...
Portia Prebys. Giorgio Bassani: Bibliografia sulle Opere e sulla Vita.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica; 12/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Giorgio Bassani: Bibliografia sulle Opere e sulla Vita. Firenze: Centro Editoriale Toscano...sull'editoria, su Botteghe Oscure, e sulla scoperta de Il Gattopardo, sulle prese...Azione, e sul Partito Repubblicano, sulla RAI, sulle battaglie di Italia Nostra...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix: Sulla: The Last Republican.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2006; ; 510 words ; Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix Sulla: The Last Republican. A. Keaveney. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005. 233 pp. $29.95. [Keaveney] deals with Sulla [Roman general and politician, ca. 138 BC-78 BC] and his actions...
SULLA MORTE IMPOSSIBILE: Le tormentate vicende di Aleksandr Petrovic Dovzenko e del suo Arsenal dal 1925 al 1939
Magazine article from: Cineforum; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...I. Lenin de Lo stato della Comune, sulla scia della lontana resistenza de la commune...mezza figura si alterna al campo lungo sulla piazza Rossa. Appare il Verbo, segue...nuovo il controcampo fuori dalla cripta, sulla folla, muta e immobile nel compianto...
Guido Mazzoni. Sulla poesia moderna.(article in Italian)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Guido Mazzoni. Sulla poesia moderna. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. Sulla poesia moderna ripercorre storiograficamente l'evoluzione...Gia autore di Forma e solitudine, Mazzoni pone enfasi sulla componente autoreferenziale della poesia moderna, che...