Gaius Marius
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Post #5
For the past four years (104 B.C - 100 B.C.) I have served a unprecedented five sucessive consulships, I passed a bill that gave colonial lands to veterans and received a lower price for distributed wheat.
Post #2
It is now 119 B.C. and I am now a tribune. As a tribune I created a law that decreased the influence of nobles at elections. So the people who are running for office don't win because they are friends with the nobles.
Post #3
Today I married a women of patrician rank. Her name was Julia, and she is the aunt of Julius Caesar. This gave me a new social rank. Which helped when I ran for consul.
Post #4
In 107 B.C. I was elected consul for the 1st time. However, this won't be that last time I am consul. I am thought to be consul six more times. I am one of two consuls, the consul is a official who shares power of ruling the republic and is in office for one year.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Post # 1
In my earlier years I found an eagles nest with seven chicks in the nest. Eagles almost never clutch three chicks. Since eagles are considered sacred birds of Jupiter the situation was portrayed as a omen. The omen was that I would be consul seven times. Once I was elected consul I made the eagle the symbol of the Senate and Citizens of Rome.
Friday, May 6, 2011
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