However, once Rome has settled this pressing domestic matter, and can begin to plot revenge against Mithridates and Tigranes, Marius and Sulla have their first serious falling out over the question of who should lead the legions East.

This was only awarded a very few times during the Republic, and only ever to a general or commander who broke the blockade around a beleaguered Roman army or otherwise saved an entire legion or army from annihilation.

During this struggle, Sulla, rallying his troops against certain destruction near Nola, is hailed as ' imperator' on the field of battle and presented with the highest honour a Roman general can receive: the corona graminea, the eponymous 'Grass Crown'. However, Marius suffers a serious stroke (his second), and is forced to withdraw from the war. Marius and Sulla, still friends and professional colleagues, face the Italian threat together, and succeed in putting down the rebellion of the Italians. (The lengthy section dealing with Marcus Livius Drusus' attempt to secure them the citizenship, which ends in his tragic assassination, is one of the main turning points in the entire series.) Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla eat dinner together with their wives, and discuss the threat presented by Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia.Īlthough these two powerful Eastern rulers would eventually declare war on Rome and slaughter thousands of Roman citizens, the plot of the novel centres on the Social War of 91 to 88 BC, a civil war which Rome fought against its mutinous Italian Allies after they were refused full Roman citizenship. The novel opens shortly after the action of The First Man in Rome. OL1882553W Page_number_confidence 96.75 Pages 1078 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201201082242 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1440 Scandate 20201127094751 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099792406 Tts_version 4.The Grass Crown is the second historical novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, published in 1991. Urn:lcp:grasscrown0000mccu:epub:b3fb3c96-8ada-4f7b-a4a7-ef03d03f0926 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier grasscrown0000mccu Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8fg3hx9n Invoice 1652 Isbn 0099792400 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9714 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400045 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:28 Boxid IA40008114 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The grass crown