Sulpicius Ruffus and other rebels, and he leaves for Asia as proconsul after having instituted reforms that will be short-lived.Ī new Roman demagogue appears in the person of L. Now 44, Mithradates has made himself master of Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and all of the Black Sea’s southern and eastern coasts.Ĭivil war breaks out in Rome as the legions suppress the insurrection of 3 years ago and as fresh legions are raised to fight the king of Pontus. The king of Pontus Mithradates VI Enpator begins the first of three wars that he will wage against Rome. and overrun four Parthian vassal states, reducing the size of Parthia and extending the borders of Armenia.
His son-in-law Tigranes II of Armenia invades Parthia and begins a war in which he will recover the 70 valleys paid for his ransom in 95 B.C. Parthia’s Mithridates the Great dies after a 36-year reign in the closing years of which he has conquered Mesopotamia.
The Republic of Italia is set up by Italian insurrectionists, who establish a capital at Corfinium and begin a 3-year war against Rome. Parthia’s Mithridates II makes an alliance with Rome and prepares to invade Mesopotamia. Cornelius Sulla comes to the aid of Cappadocia and forces Tigranes to retire. He invades the kingdom of Cappadocia in the name of his new father-in-law, but the Roman general L. Tigranes has murdered a neighboring Armenian prince and taken over his territory. The Seleucid king Antiochus IX is defeated in battle and killed by the son of his late half brother who will reign briefly as Seleucus VI.Īrmenia Minor’s King Artanes is deposed by a descendant of the first king of Armenia Major, who has been held hostage for several years by Parthians but is ransomed for “70 valleys.” He unites the two countries and at 45 begins a 38-year reign as Tigranes I that will make Armenia the most powerful nation in western Asia.Īrmenia’s Tigranes II seals an alliance with the Parthian king Mithridates by marrying his daughter Cleopatra. The Seleucid king Antiochus VIII is murdered by his court favorite Heracleon after a 29-year reign in which he has been forced to divide the realm with his half brother Antiochus IX, who will reign alone until 95 B.C. Aquillius subdues an army of slaves that has put up a stubborn resistance. Rome’s second Servile War ends after 4 years as the consul M. Nobles in the Senate outlaw the popular leaders, and both are murdered with the complicity of Gaius Marius, the general.
VIPSANIUS GLADIATOR BEGINS PLUS
Rome’s plebeian tribunes Saturnius and Glaucia propose cheaper corn for the very poor plus other new social laws. Sulla, Lepidus, Crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, and Octavian (Augustus) will rule Rome in this century.
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