https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7dnr1ZYbks
Frank expounds on the lessons of Roman history and how Sulla murdered Marius's son. But, apparently cheeky young Pompey the Great also said to old Sulla that

https://www.historytools.org/stories/marius-vs-sulla-a-timeline-of-the-rivalry-that-changed-rome-forever
May 26, 2024. The rivalry between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla was perhaps the most consequential personal feud in Roman history. Their struggle for power in the late 2nd century BC led to two epochal civil wars, saw the erosion of sacrosanct political norms, and opened the door to decades of bloodshed that ultimately undid the Roman

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/75hun3/house_of_cards_and_marius_vs_sulla/
House of Cards and Marius vs. Sulla. Media Review. In season 4 episode 7 Frank Underwood relates the story of the rivalry between Marius and Sulla after receiving a phone call from his opponent. Frank says that Sulla who was about Frank's age (not sure how old Frank is but somewhere between 55 and 65) beheaded his greatest rival- 26 year old

https://www.historyhit.com/timeline-marius-and-sulla/
82 BC. The Battle of Sacriportus occurred between the forces of Young Marius and the battle-hardened legions of Sulla. In the ensuing fight, Sulla defeated Marius, who consequently fled to Praeneste. Sulla then duly besieged the city. Gnaeus Carbo attempted to lift the Siege of Praeneste but failed and fled to Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla%27s_civil_war
Sulla's civil war was fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction (usually called the Marians or the Cinnans after their former leaders Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna), in the years 83-82 BC.The war ended with a decisive battle just outside Rome itself. After the war the victorious Sulla made himself dictator of the Roman Republic.

https://www.academia.edu/49889630/From_Marius_to_Sulla_Part_1
Studies in Honour of Margaret Parker Part I A Special Issue of ANCIENT HISTORY: RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Vol. 38 No. 1 - 2008 MACQUARIE ANCIENT HISTORY ASSOCIATION FROM MARIUS TO SULLA: Part 1 * Lea Beness, Tom Hillard T he largely contemporaneous and interlocked careers of these two men (both of them iconic in Roman history) spanned a period of fundamental transformations. 1 Scholars will

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2146/sullas-march-on-rome/
In 88 BCE, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BCE) marched on Rome and entered the city 's sacred inner boundary, the pomerium, bearing arms. Breaking this taboo, he sought to gain political power and control of the army of the East that had been offered to his enemy, Gaius Marius (c. 157-86 BCE). A second march occurred in 83-82 BCE when he

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0352.xml
Introduction. Gaius Marius (b. 158/157-d. 86 BCE) and Lucius Cornelius Sulla (b. 138-d. 78 BCE) were the most prominent, and in several respects defining, figures of a phase of Roman Republican history that lasted roughly three decades: from 107, when Marius was elected to his first consulship, to 78 BCE, the year of Sulla's death.Much of that period was marked by the relationship

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/818/lucius-cornelius-sulla-guardian-or-enemy-of-the-ro/
Marius was charged with subduing these tribes, the Cimbri and the Teutones, and he again chose the very capable Sulla to assist him. However, during the barbarian conflict, the relationship between Marius and Sulla became so strained that Sulla requested to be reassigned to another army, led by the co-Consul Catulus. The transfer was approved

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780203856659-7/sulla-pompey-82%E2%80%9379-mark-davies-hilary-swain
After digging ditches and building a wall around Praeneste, Sulla handed control of the siege to Afella, but the young Marius was somehow able to send a message to Damasippus, the urban praetor, urging the Senate to execute any important Sullan sympathisers, and four men, including Quintus Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, were killed and their

https://www.worldhistory.org/sulla/
Marius & Sulla. With the surrender of Jugurtha and the end of the war, Marius returned to Rome in triumph where he would be elected consul unprecedentedly for every year 104-101 BCE. After a brief celebration of his triumph, Marius marched northward - Sulla would join him - where he would defeat rebellious Germanic tribes at Aix-en-Provence (102 BCE) and Vercellae (101 BCE).

https://academic.oup.com/book/12419/chapter/162899581
Abstract. During the first decades of the first century bc, the political situation in Rome was deeply affected by the rivalry between C. Marius and L. Cornelius Sulla.This increasingly bitter rivalry extended to a traditionally important realm of Republican aristocratic self-fashioning, namely the medium of victory and/or honorific monuments displayed in public.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41233915
Studies in Greek and Roman History (Oxford 1964) 157-78, on the chronology; which is defended by Keaveney, Deux dates contestées de la carrière de Sylla, LEC 48 (1980) 149-57, against the objections of A. N. Sherwin-White, Ariobarzanes, Mithridates and Sulla, CQ 27 (1977) 173-83, and Roman Foreign Policy in the

https://www.thecollector.com/lucius-cornelius-sulla-dictator/
Marching north at the head of an army whose ranks kept swelling, Sulla's forces besieged the son of Marius at Praeneste, while they had also advanced to the Colline Gate at Rome. The battle there, on 1st November 82 BCE, was a victory for the Sullan forces. Victory at Rome, coupled with the suicide of Marius' son, left Sulla as supreme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (/ ˈ s ʌ l ə /; 138-78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.. Sulla had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as reviving the dictatorship.A gifted and innovative general, he achieved

https://www.hhstech.org/glenney/RomanHistoryWeb/Pages/rh1_10mariussulla.htm
Marius and Sulla profoundly changed the fate of the Roman world. Marius was born as a commoner in Arpinum, only gaining power through his incredible skill as a military leader [NardoNardo2003]. He was very hardy, willing to withstand the elements, and good at hand to hand combat, so the higher officers, including Scipio, took a liking to him

https://books.google.com/books/about/Sulla.html?id=sl-TzQEACAAJ
Sulla's supporters went on a rampage across Rome, and some of them disinterred Marius's body and dismembered it before throwing the pieces into the Tiber River. Of course, the purge included the murder of Marius's most prominent supporters as well, all in an effort to allow Sulla to proclaim himself Dictator for life.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sulla
Sulla (born 138 bce —died 79 bce, Puteoli [Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italy]) was the victor in the first full-scale civil war in Roman history (88-82 bce) and subsequently dictator (82-79), who carried out notable constitutional reforms in an attempt to strengthen the Roman Republic during the last century of its existence. In late 82 he assumed the name Felix in belief in his own luck.

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/sulla-s-proscriptions/
Lucius Cornelius Sulla is an infamous figure in Roman history. His rise to power, underscored by a blend of military brilliance and political strategy, culminated in a reign that would forever alter the course of Roman history. At the heart of his legacy are the infamous proscriptions, a series of measures that saw the state-sanctioned persecution and murder of his political enemies.

https://repository.yu.edu/items/7c09be4f-fac4-49f9-908b-8970d10411f3
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in early 49 B.C.E.1 and proceeded to march on Rome, he set in motion a series of events which would culminate in the transformation of the Roman state. Never again would the Senate, magistrates, Tribunes, or plebeian assemblies have any claim to real power; a dictator, and eventually an emperor, would become the effective ruler of Rome.

https://www.academia.edu/64665929/From_Marius_to_Sulla_part_1
Studies in Honour of Margaret Parker Part I A Special Issue of ANCIENT HISTORY: RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Vol. 38 No. 1 - 2008 MACQUARIE ANCIENT HISTORY ASSOCIATION FROM MARIUS TO SULLA: Part 1 * Lea Beness, Tom Hillard T he largely contemporaneous and interlocked careers of these two men (both of them iconic in Roman history) spanned a period of fundamental transformations. 1 Scholars will

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=sulla-bio-6
L. Cornelius Sulla Felix, the dictator, was born in B. C. 138. Like most other great men, he was the architect of his own fortunes. He possessed neither of the two great advantages which secured for the Roman nobles easy access to the honours of the commonwealth: an illustrious ancestry and hereditary wealth. His father had left him so small a

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Marius-bio-1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104
1. C. Marius, *ma/rios, was born in B. C. 157, at the village of Cereatae 1, near Arpinum. His father's name was C. Marius, and his mother's Fulcinia; and the family, according to the almost concurrent voice of antiquity, was in very humble circumstances. His parents, as well as Marius himself, are said to have been the clients of the