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1st-century BC Roman consuls
- CiceroOn the 7th of December 43 BC, soldiers caught Marcus Tullius Cicero leaving his villa in Formiae in a litter, heading for the coast and a ship bound for…
- Julius CaesarAround the 10th or the 11th of January 49 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar led a single legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, across a small river called the Rubicon, the…
- Mark AntonyMark Antony was born in Rome on the 14th of January 83 BC, into a family already marked by violent ends and broken ambitions.
- PompeyPompey the Great was born on the 29th of September 106 BC in Picenum, and he died on the 28th of September 48 BC, one day short of his 58th birthday…
- AugustusOn the 8th of May 44 BC, a teenager named Gaius Octavius accepted a dead man's will and, with it, the most dangerous inheritance in the Roman world.
- Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC)Gnaeus Octavius died on the Janiculum Hill in 87 BC, beheaded by a cavalry officer named Gaius Marcius Censorinus, his head carried to the dictator Cinna and…
- Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)Lucius Antonius spent his early years roaming through Rome in bad company. Plutarch describes the untamed life of him and his friends.
- Gaius MariusGaius Marius died on the 13th of January, 86 BC, within a fortnight of taking office as consul for the seventh time. No Roman before him had ever held that…
- Lucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius Cinna entered the world before 130 BC into a patrician family that lacked recent distinction. The historian Theodor Mommsen once argued the…
- Marcus Licinius CrassusMarcus Licinius Crassus stood at the center of Rome's most dangerous political experiment, a man so wealthy that Plutarch calculated his fortune at 7,100…
- SullaSulla composed his own epitaph. Carved into his tomb on the Campus Martius, it read: "No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not…
- Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa was born around 63 BC into a plebeian family of no great distinction in Roman public life, and yet he would become the man without…
- Gaius Asinius PollioGaius Asinius Pollio emerged from the hills of central Italy, born in the town known today as Chieti. His father bore the name Gnaeus Asinius Pollio, a man…