Lucullus

Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (; 118–57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous military and government service, he conquered the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously during the Siege of Cyzicus in 73–72 BC, and at the Battle of Tigranocerta in Armenian Arzanene in 69 BC. His command style received unusually favourable attention from ancient military experts, and his campaigns appear to have been studied as examples of skillful generalship. Lucullus returned to Rome from the east with so much captured booty that the vast sums of treasure, jewels, priceless works of art, and slaves could not be fully accounted for. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucullus has received more than 506,532 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Lucullus is the 1,548th most popular politician (down from 1,328th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from Italy (down from 546th in 2019) and the 94th most popular Italian Politician.

L. Lucullus was a Roman general and politician who became famous for his success in the Third Mithridatic War, which he waged against Mithridates VI of Pontus.