Gaius Flavius Fimbria was a Roman general. Born to a recently distinguished senatorial family, he became one of the most violent and bloodthirsty partisans of the consul Cornelius Cinna and his ally,
Cistophorus minted by Fimbria in Pergamum after he took the city in 85 BC
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman of the late Roman Republic. He came to prominence for his military exploits and was the first general during th
Gaius Flavius Fimbria (quaestor 86 BC)
…Fimbria murdered Flaccus midway through and assumed command of the campaign. In Asia, after having defeated Mithridates, Fimbria was confronted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the first Roman general in charge of the war, who had been removed from his command by Cinna and Marius, but entered into a rebellion against the…
Portrait of Sulla on a denarius minted in 54 BC by his grandson Pompeius Rufus
Denarius minted by Sulla's son Faustus in 56 BC. It features the head of Diana on the obverse and the Bocchus monument on the reverse, showing the moment of the capture of Jugurtha. The reverse was also a reproduction of Sulla's first signet ring.
Depiction of Marius as victor over the invading Cimbri.
"Sulla", a copy (probably from the time of Augustus) after a portrait of an important Roman from the second century BC, with similarities to "Marius", suggesting that both statues were conceived and exhibited together as either siblings or rivals; Munich, Glyptothek.