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Encyclopedia > Gaius Marius the Younger

Otherwise known as Younger Marius or Marius the Younger. Marius was born in Rome between 110-108BC. His father Gaius Marius was 7 times consul, a General and Roman Revolutionist however his mother Julia Caesaris was a parental aunt to Julius Caesar. His cousin always thought highly of him and his father. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Gaius Marius (Latin: C·MARIVS·C·F·C·N) (157 - January 13, 86 BC) was a Roman general and politician who was mostly known for his reform of Roman armies. ... Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family (to which, for instance Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus belonged), since feminine names were their fathers gens and cognomen declined in the female form. ... Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ...


In his younger years, he educated with Titus Atticus and Cicero by Greek Tutors. Marius always supported his father’s republican-democratic party. When his father died in 86BC, he assumed control. He wasn’t as charismatic as his father, but his father’s name assisted him. Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC/109 BC – 32 BC). ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin prose stylist. ...


During his consulship in 82BC, he married Mucia Tertia (future wife of Pompey the Great). Although there was an age gap, Tertia’s father was a supporter of the party. Mucia Tertia was a Roman matrona that lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus killed by Gaius Marius supporters in 86 BC. Her mother was a Licinia that divorced her father to marry Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in a scandal... This article refers to the Roman General. ...


In the Civil War in 80BC, the party’s enemy, Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his army defeated the armies of Marius at the Fortress of Praeneste. At the siege he committed suicide. This page is about the Roman dictator Sulla, for the Brythonic goddess sometimes called Sulla, see Sul. ...


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Marius was born in 157 BC in the town of Arpinum in southern Latium.
The facts that Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, that he ran for local office in Arpinum and that he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.
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