1. Marius

Primary sources:

Plutarch, Marius

Sallust, Jugurthine War

Appian, Civil Wars I.27-33.

Diodorus 34.5.38 (c. 109 B.C. Marius, in Africa under Q. Caecilius

Metellus).

Secondary Literature

General:

Harris, William V. (1979) War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327-

70 B.C.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb01429

CAH2 IX pp 86-103, 165-172.

Crawford, Roman Republic 14 q 2

Crawford and Bears, Rome in the late Republic 14 q 17/9

On Marius:

Start with the OCD entry...

Cagniart, P.F. (1989) ‘L. Cornelius Sulla’s Quarrel with C. Marius at the

Time of the Germanic Invasions (104-101 B.C.), Athenaeum 77, 139ff.

*Luce, T. J. (1970) ‘Marius and the Mithridatic Command’ Historia 19,

161-194.

Carney, T. F. (1959) ‘Coins bearing on the Age and Career of Marius’ The

Numismatic Chronicle 19, 79-88.

Carney, T. F. (1961) ‘The Flight and Exile of Marius’ Greece & Rome 8,

98-121.

Carney, T. F. (1961) A Biography of Gaius Marius 14 q 16/5

Carney, T. F. (1967) ‘The Changing Picture of Marius in Ancient

Literature’, The Proceedings of the African Classical Associations 10, 5-

22.

Evans, Richard j. (1994) Gaius Marius. A Political Biography

On some of the relevant issues:

Burckhardt, L. A. (1990) ‘The Political Elite of the Roman Republic:

Comments on Recent Discussion of the Concepts Nobilitas and Homo

Novus, Historia 39, 79ff.

*Wiseman, T. P. (1971) New Men in the Roman Senate 139 B.C. – 14 A.D.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb01565

Cuff, P. J. (1975) ‘Two cohorts from Camerinum’ in Essays in honour of C.

E. Stevens , 75-91 [on the consequence of Marian military reforms]. 14 a

9/1

*Brunt, P. A. (1971) Italian Manpower, ch. 22

Gabba, (1976) Republican Rome: the army and allies ch.1.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb01444

Patterson, J (1993) ‘Military organization and social change in the later

Roman Republic’ in J.Rich and G. Shipley War and Society in the Roman

World. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bodleian/docDetail.action?

docID=10060746

On Saturninus:

Badian, E (1984) ‘The Death of Saturninus’ Chiron 14, 101ff

Jones B.W. (1974) ‘Senatorial Influence in the Revolt of Saturninus’

Latomus 33, 529-535. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41529064?

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&uid=3&uid=32104&uid=5910784&uid=67&uid=4581172797&uid=62

&uid=60&sid=21104178069553

Crawford, M. H (1969) ‘Saturninus and the Italians’ Classical Philology

64.1, 37-38.

Mattingly, H. B. (1969) ‘Saturninus’ Corn Bill and the Circumstances of

his Fall’ The Classical Review 83, 267-270.

Rowland, R. J. (1969) ‘The Italians and Saturninus’ Classical Philology

64.1, 38-40.

Rowland, R. J. (1967) ‘Saturn, Saturninus and the Socii’ Classical

Philology 62.3, 185-188.

Question: How does Marius illustrate the key issues of the

Late Republic?

Include, but do not limit your discussion to, the changing needs for the

management of empire (esp. the army!), opportunities for and

restrictions on social mobility, and the sources of power available to an

ambitious Roman.

Also consider: Is Saturninus a more appropriate symbol of the political

changes of the period?

Why do you think some modern commentators on this period have fixated

on him?