Jugurthine War
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The Jugurthine War was an armed conflict between the Roman Republic and King Jugurtha of Numidia, a kingdom on the north African coast roughly corresponding to modern-day Algeria. Jugurtha was the nep
Coin commemorating Sulla's capture of Jugurtha
Jugurtha's capture
Sulla
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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
Jugurthine War
…pressed by Gaetulian and Mauretanian cavalries and for a time Marius and his main force found themselves besieged on a hill, while Marius's quaestor Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his men were on the defensive on another hill nearby. However, the Romans managed to hold off the enemy until evening and the Africans retired…
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.