Jugurtha
King of the Berber kingdom of Numidia (present-day Algeria) · Historical Figures · Lived 160 BC to 104 BC · aged 56
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Something wrong?He killed his way to a throne, bribed half the Roman Senate to look the other way, and turned his name into shorthand for the corruption eating the late Republic - until the war he triggered ended with him strangled in a Roman dungeon.
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Jugurtha, King of Numidia, Thrown from His Roman Prison into the Tiber - Google Art Project
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Lodovico Pogliaghi - Jugurtha leaving Rome and speaking against the city
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Jugurtha was a king of Numidia in northwest Africa, adopted by King Micipsa and set to inherit alongside Micipsa's two natural sons when the old king died in 118 BC. He had Hiempsal killed in 117 BC, then defeated and killed Adherbal in a civil war by 112 BC. The second death violated Rome's wishes, and Jugurtha's success in bribing Roman senators to avoid consequences ignited popular fury back in the capital. The result was the Jugurthine War: a grinding series of battles across Numidia until he was captured in 105 BC, marched through Rome in Gaius Marius' triumph, and executed by strangulation in the Tullianum prison in 104 BC.
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