Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix 🇮🇹

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Known as "Sulla")
Roman Dictator, General, Victor of the Social and Mithridatic Wars
Born 138 BCE 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy
Passed Away 78 BCE Puteoli (Campania), Italy
Lifespan ~60 years old
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"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."

Archival Overview

Formidable Roman general, victor of the First Mithridatic War, and dictator who was the first commander to march Roman legions on Rome itself, profoundly altering Republican constitutional politics.

Biographical Record

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 BCE) proved his military genius in the Jugurthine and Social Wars, where his tactical audacity earned him the coveted Grass Crown (Corona Graminea). In Greece, he outmaneuvered Mithridates' armies at Chaeronea and Orchomenus through field entrenchments and counter-charges.

Victorious at the Colline Gate (82 BCE) over Marian loyalists and Samnites, he assumed the dictatorship to overhaul the Roman constitution before astonishing the Mediterranean world by voluntarily resigning all power to retire as a private citizen.

Key Life Milestones

86 BCE

The Battles of Chaeronea & Orchomenus

Crushed Mithridatic pontic forces in Boeotia through defensive ditches and aggressive legionary charges.

1 November 82 BCE

Victory at the Colline Gate

Secured total dominion over Italy in a ferocious clash outside the walls of Rome.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Public Sepulcher on the Campus Martius
Puteoli (Campania), Italy
GPS: 41.8986, 12.4769
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