What the fuck was his problem?

Wouldn't you be upset if you didn't have a nose?

>>3271594
this desu

I'm a pleb when it comes to the civil wars between Marius and Sulla. Can someone tell me what each party did to attract the ire of the other?

>>3271623

Sulla was being deployed to fight against King Mithridates in Asia Minor, but before he left Italy, Marius supporters in the senate intervened to have Marius designated as the new commander of the campaign. This was especially jarring because the troops being deployed had made it very clear that Sulla was the man that they wanted to lead them.

In response, Sulla took his army into Rome and basically wrecked the place until the Senate agreed that he should remain as commander. Sulla then left to go fight Mithridates as he'd been planning to do in the first place.

Of course, while Sulla was gone, Marius took the opportunity to try and undermine Sulla's position in Rome. When Sulla learned of this duplicity, he returned to Italy, but not immediately. Defeating King Mithridates remained his primary concern. Sulla's forces succeeded in pushing back Mithridates, but they settled for simply weakening him. Sulla probably could have killed him if he'd kept going, but he was anxious to return to Italy at that point. So instead, the King was allowed to stay in power, albeit severely weakened.

When Sulla returned to Italy, he initiated an unprecedented reign of terror. His army seized control of Rome, and then he set about killing everybody who he felt had wronged him.

Rather than sending his army looking for people, he instead opted to introduce a bounty system. He put out a very long list of enemies, and there was a substantial cash reward for killing any of them. If a slave killed somebody who was on the list, then the slave would get the cash reward, AND he'd automatically be given freedom on the spot. Once a marked man was killed, his property would be seized by the state, and then auctioned off with Sulla himself acting as auctioneer.

Once he was done killing everybody that he didn't like, Sulla instituted a laundry list of reforms designed to prevent anybody else from doing what he'd just done.

>>3271590

Marius.

>>3271667
So essentially Marius wronged Sulla but then Sulla went into overkill and completely wrecked the system.

>>3271667
>Once he was done killing everybody that he didn't like, Sulla instituted a laundry list of reforms designed to prevent anybody else from doing what he'd just done.

The absolute madman kek

>>3271590
He never stopped to smell the roses

>>3271590
Sulla did nothing wrong

>>3271710

That's not even the best part. After voluntarily giving up the dictatorship, Sulla disbanded his extensive bodyguard unit and wandered around the city for over a month, alone, unarmed, and shirtless, as if daring somebody to kill him. He ended up dying of liver disease.

>>3271667
Based Sulla did nothing wrong then. Talk shit get hit.

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