The Social War

There's also this horrible, brutal civil war with a very nice name. It's called the social war because rome and its allies were called soki - that's latin for allies. So what we get in this period is the rise of two quite famous figures: lucius cornelius sulla and gaius marius. The conflict between these two was partly to do with ar who got military glory, but also through how Rome wanted to ope rat as a political system. In 88 b c e, sulla marches his troops on rome. Gaius julius caesar was around about 12 at this point. But by the time he got roughly