Rome’s first dictator

509 BC – as a safeguard against future emergencies, the early Roman Republic created the ‘Office of Dictator’. But in the later 2nd century BC, as Roman rulers and generals became more aggressive, the Office of Dictator was abolished.

82 BC – after his victorious march on Rome, General Lucius Cornelius Sulla (82 – 78 BC) became Rome’s first dictator…..read more in Volume Three….