Most Powerful

• #1 Julius Caesar
  Roman Republic Imperial SovereigntyMilitaryPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 98
  Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE) was a Roman general and statesman whose career dismantled the late Republic’s balance of power and opened the path toward imperial rule. He combined electoral politics, elite alliance-building, and sustained military command into a single personal power base
• #2 Marcus Antonius
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 88
  Marcus Antonius (83 BCE – 30 BCE), known in English tradition as Mark Antony, was a Roman general and political leader whose career unfolded in the collapse of the Roman Republic. He rose as a trusted lieutenant of Julius Caesar
• #3 Gaius Marius
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Gaius Marius (157 BCE–86 BCE) was a Roman general and statesman whose victories in the Jugurthine War and against the Cimbri and Teutones made him a dominant figure in late Republican politics. He translated military command and veteran loyalty into repeated consulships and factional leverage
• #4 Lucius Cornelius Sulla
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BCE–78 BCE) was a Roman general and dictator who marched on Rome, defeated the Marian faction in civil war, and reshaped the Republic through proscriptions and constitutional reforms. His regime combined loyal legions, eastern spoils
• #5 Pompey
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Pompey (106 BCE – 48 BCE), formally Gnaeus Pompeius and later celebrated as “Magnus,” was a Roman general and statesman whose career shows how extraordinary military command could override republican constraints. He rose during the dictatorship of Sulla, built prestige through campaigns in Sicily
• #6 Pompey the Great
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Pompey the Great (106 BCE – 48 BCE), also known as Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, was the late Roman Republic’s most famous example of the “emergency commander” whose success made constitutional limits harder to defend. His epithet “the Great” was not simply flattery
• #7 Scipio Africanus
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Scipio Africanus (236–183) was a roman general and statesman associated with Roman Republic. Scipio Africanus is best known for defeating Carthage’s main forces and expanding Roman influence in the western Mediterranean.
• #8 Sulla
  Roman Republic MilitaryMilitary CommandPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Military CommandState Power Power: 81
  Sulla (born 138) is a roman general and dictator associated with Roman Republic. Sulla is best known for using civil war victory to seize dictatorship and reshape Republican institutions by force. This profile belongs to the site’s study of military command and state power
• #9 Marcus Licinius Crassus
  Roman RepublicRomeSyria Financial Network ControlPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Finance and WealthState Power Power: 57
  Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115–53 BCE) was a Roman politician, financier, and military commander whose wealth and ambition helped shape the final decades of the Roman Republic. Ancient writers regularly describe him as one of the richest men of his age
• #10 Cicero
  ArpinumRoman RepublicRome FinancialFinancial Network ControlPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Finance and WealthState Power Power: 51
  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and writer whose career unfolded during the final decades of the Roman Republic. He rose from an equestrian family in Arpinum to become consul in 63 BCE, and he became famous for his courtroom advocacy, his senate speeches
• #11 Cato the Elder
  Roman RepublicRomeTusculum Financial Network ControlPolitical AncientAncient and Classical Finance and WealthState Power Power: 48
  Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 BCE), known to later writers as Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor, was a Roman soldier, statesman, and author whose career coincided with the Roman Republic’s rapid expansion across the western Mediterranean.