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[–] 1Iron_Curtain ago
Yeah, I used to like Marius, and maybe I still do, but he went too far in militarizing the Roman Empire.
I am not a fan of the Romans for some reason, but rather my people the Northern Europeans, who were constantly under barrage from the Romans.
I would have probably favored the populists over Sulla who laid the foundations for the establishment of the Roman Empire which served to menace my people in Germania. In essence, I have no respect for either Marius or Sulla.
[–] Cato_the_Elder [S] ago (edited ago)
During the age of Marius and Sulla the Romans simply reacted to the invasion of the imperium by invaders from Northern Europe in the only way they knew how: with armies, several of which were wiped out bc of incompetent Roman leadership (i.e. Consul X, the patrician, hated Consul Y, who was rather plebian, etc.; they arrogance of the Romans is amazing to read about). The battles the Romans fought around 100 B.C. against Germanic tribes were a foreshadow of things to come.
Sulla was a largely conservative dictator, btw, and he resigned and guzzled himself into death bc, iirc, he liked wine. He didn't put on airs like Marius's nephew, Caesar (Marius married Caesar's aunt, Julia).