Tribune of the plebs
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Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the plebeians, and was, throughout the history of the Republic, the most import
The Secession of the People to the Mons Sacer, engraving by B. Barloccini, 1849.
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
Tribune of the plebs
…the plebiscita as laws with binding force. In 149 BC, men elected to the tribunate automatically entered the Senate. However, in 81 BC, the dictator Sulla, who considered the tribunate a threat to his power, deprived the tribunes of their powers to initiate legislation, and to veto acts of the senate. He…
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.