Plutarch's Life of Gaius Marius
By Plutarch (Rome)
The rough peasant soldier who held seven consulships, transformed the Roman army into a professional force, saved Rome from the Cimbri and Teutones, and plunged the city into blood. Moral focus: Raw soldierly virtue corrupted by bitter ambition and revenge.
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Lesson 1: The Rugged Son of Arpinum
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The Rugged Son of Arpinum
Born to poor laborers; hardened by frontier military service under Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia.
[Public Domain: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, translated by John Dryden / Thomas North.]
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Lesson 1: The Rugged Son of Arpinum
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Lesson 2: The Jugurthine War in Africa
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Lesson 3: The Marian Army Reforms: The Mules of Marius
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Lesson 4: The Terror of the Cimbri and Teutones
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Lesson 5: The Battle of Aquae Sextiae
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Lesson 6: The Slaughter at Vercellae (The Cimbric Plains)
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Lesson 7: Six Consulships and the Loss of Political Bearing
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Lesson 8: The Social War & Sulla's Rising Star
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Lesson 9: The Flight through the Marshes of Minturnae
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Lesson 10: 'Man, Darest Thou Slay Gaius Marius?'
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Lesson 11: Sitting amid the Ruins of Carthage
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Lesson 12: The Seventh Consulship and the Reign of Terror
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