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Lucius Cornelius Cinna (mort en 84 av. J.-C. à Ancône), partisan de Marius, est consul sans interruption de 87 av. J.-C. à 84 av. J.-C., et règne par la terreur sur Rome par ses proscriptions.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna est un homme politique du dernier siècle de la République romaine. Il est le fils de Lucius Cornelius Cinna, adjoint de Marius puis chef du parti des populares. En 84 av. J.-C., son père, consul pour la quatrième fois, est tué au cours d’une sédition militaire.
La vie publique de Lucius Cornelius Cinna permet de retracer les grandes phases de la lutte qui opposa à Rome, au commencement du ier siècle avant J.-C., le parti populaire dont il était l'un des chefs au parti sénatorial, Marius à Sylla, la démocratie totalitaire au conservatisme d'une oligarchie.
- Early Life and Family
- First Consulship, 87 BC
- Dominatio and Death
- Assessment
Cinna was born some time before 130 BC into a patrician family that was not recently distinguished. Theodor Mommsen considered the Cornelii Cinnae to be plebeians, but most modern authors view them as patricians.His father may have been consul in 127 BC. He married a woman named Annia, with whom he had three children: two daughters and one homonymo...
Electoral context
In 88 BC, there were two major questions in Roman politics. The first was the Italian question. During the Social War, the Roman republic had granted basically all the Italian allies Roman citizenship. Publius Sulpicius Rufus, a plebeian tribune, sought to curry their favour by enrolling them equally into the thirty-five tribes (voting units); in this, he was opposed by politicians who wished to pack the numerous Italians into a limited number of existing – or eight newly-created – tribes. Th...
When he returned to the city he dominated public affairs and took measures against Sulla. Sulla was declared hostis and stripped of his priesthood. His property was confiscated, his house demolished, and his legislation repealed. His wife and children fled the city for the protection of Sulla's army in Greece. At elections in late 87 BC, Cinna had ...
The dominatio Cinnae is not well documented. According to Robin Seager, in the Cambridge Ancient History, "assessment [of it] is rendered painfully difficult by the way in which our scrappy sources are pervaded by the insidious influence of Sulla's own version of events, diffused without competition after his victory" in the civil war. Cinna and hi...
Les Cornelii Cinnae sont des patriciens romains membres d'une branche de la gens des Cornelii. Ils apparaissent au IIe siècle av. J.-C. et occupent des magistratures jusqu'aux débuts de l' Empire . Lucius Cornelius Cinna, consul en 127 av. J.-C. ; Lucius Cornelius Cinna, dit Cinna, fils du précédent, consul en 87, 86, 85 et 84 av. J.-C. ;
28 mars 2024 · Lucius Cornelius Cinna (died 84 BC) was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic, serving four consecutive terms from 87 to 84 BC, and a member of the ancient Roman Cinna family of the Cornelii gens. Cinna's influence in Rome exacerbated the tensions which existed between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Général romain (?-Ancône 84 avant J.-C.). Consul en 87, il fut destitué par son collègue Cn. Octavius, qui s'opposa à sa loi destinée à répartir également les citoyens entre toutes les tribus. Entré dans Rome avec ses troupes et celles de Marius (86), il régna tyranniquement sur l'Italie et fut assassiné.
