The book is dedicated to Quintus Sertorius, one of the bright and at the same time mysterious personalities of the era of civil wars in Rome in the 1st century. BC e. His fate is unusual: having joined the Marians, after their defeat he continued to fight for almost ten years, raising in 80 BC. e. uprising in Spain against the all-powerful dictator Sulla. He was the first of the Roman commanders to attract the native tribes to his side. On the Iberian Peninsula he created a state that was a bizarre symbiosis of Roman and local orders. Only after a long struggle did it begin to fall apart. In 73 BC. e. Sertorius, like Caesar, was killed as a result of a conspiracy. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 5 Sources 7 Historiography 22 PART ONE On the eve of the great upheavals 37 Vir militaris 44 The beginning of the civil war 54 The second capture of Rome 59 The years between the battles 70 In the battle for Italy 75 PART TWO The country of the Hesperides 82 Proconsul hispaniae citerioris 99Wanderings 113Mauretania: on the eve of revenge 119PART THREEFrom Belon to Ibera 125 Power of Sertorius 153 New enemy 196 Year of battles 208 The ring is shrinking 223 Resolution of the tragedy 239 CONCLUSION 254 APPENDIX 1 Surroundings of Sertorius 257 APPENDIX 2 Fragment XCI of the book Livy 268 Aulus Gellius. Attic nights 276 APPENDIX 3 Problems of chronology 278 APPENDIX 4 Localization of Lavron 291 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 295 INDEX OF NAMES 296 INDEX OF TOPONYMS AND ETHNONYMS 303