Lucius Cornelius’ Sulla Felix rose from a lifestyle of poverty and unimportance as a quaestor, to have an incredible public and military career that helped influence the rise of the Roman Republic. His achievements of great honors and memorable deeds led and culminated his incumbency of high-ranking power and influence. He aided mostly in the success of Jugurthine War by tricking King Bocchus into betraying his ally Jugurtha and to become an ally of the Romans. Sulla battled with Marius against the revolt of the Italian allies and gained more influence over others when he triumphantly won. After long battles with the Mithridates, he consulted with them to end the battle. Because of Sulla and Marius’ rivalry, they sparked the first Roman civil …show more content…
The Social War (90-88 BC) was a war between Rome and the rebellious Italians who wanted to establish an independent Italian state. Sulla and Marius were under command of Julius Caesar. The war resulted in a Roman victory, although Italian rights were guaranteed. As Marius started to dispute with Sulla, the Social war flamed up, and Sulla’s abilities became …show more content…
Furthermore, Sulla’s perverted and arrogant character is revealed through his actions once he gained full power. According to Dowling's “The Clemency of Sulla”, Livy implied in his writings about Sulla that “the moment Sulla took control of Rome he lost every Republican virtue he possessed and was transformed into a tyrant, overwhelmed and distorted in his very nature by power beyond what any man should bear” (Dowling 328). From this, it reflected how he abused his position as dictator, even though he started with a lot of power and influence that could have contributed to the rise of Rome, but he let his arrogance get to him. From his influence in the senate as a leader of armies, he abused his power of dictator by creating proscriptions and reforming the government that led to the downfall of the