Gaius Marius

Gaius Marius

Gaius Marius (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈmariʊs]; c. 157 BC – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times. Rising from a family of smallholders in a village called Ceraetae in the district of Arpinum, Marius acquired his initial military experience serving with Scipio Aemilianus at the Siege of Numantia in 134 BC. He won election as tribune of the plebs in 119 BC and passed a law limiting aristocratic interference in elections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaius Marius has received more than 2,497,953 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Gaius Marius is the 5th most popular diplomat (down from 4th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Italy (up from 164th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Diplomat.

Gaius Marius was most famous for being a Roman general and politician. He was elected consul an unprecedented seven times, and was also the first Roman to become a consul without having previously served as a praetor or curule aedile.