Roman command structure during First Mithridatic War
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 105 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5082-0495-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! L. Licinius Murena pater (pr.88) went east in early 87 as Sulla's principal deputy, along with L. Cornelius Lentulus (pr.urb.88). Sulla's province was Asia as well as the bellum Mitridaticum supreme command, while the ex praetura viri pro consule Lentulus and Murena seem to have been assigned the Macedonian and Cilician commands respectively. But the dramatic events of the Pontic invasions of Asia, Thrace, Macedonia and Greece involved Sulla and his deputies in drawn out and difficult campaigning before they could resume control of the lost provinces and even begin to exercise their command powers in their properly allotted spheres. The situation after they did so is reflected in the extant lower half of a Rhodian statue-base titulus from 83 or 82 BC. In this document a certain Dionysios son of Lysanias commends a name-lost Rhodian benefactor to the Gods after recounting various (lost) benefactions and public services which conclude with a...