Question: When did the civilization that Lucullus was a politician for end?
Context: Lucullus is a Roman cognomen derived from "lux" ("light").  It was used by the plebeian family "Licinii Luculli" of gens Licinia.  Lucius Licinius Lucullus, the late Roman Republic politician and conqueror of Mithridates, was among the most well-known names. The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana ; ] ) was the era of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.  It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th-9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (  600 AD).  Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.  Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the period of Archaic Greece and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin.  This was followed by the period of Classical Greece, an era that began with the Greco-Persian Wars, lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC.  Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.  The Hellenistic period came to an end with the conquests and annexations of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic, which established the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece, and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire. Lucius Licinius Lucullus (born c.144 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic, and a member of the distinguished family of the Licinii Luculli, being the son of Lucius Licinius Lucullus (Consul 151 BC).  He did not, however, achieve the political success of his father and failed to hold the Consulship, reaching only the position of Praetor in 104 BC.  During his Praetorship he first successfully put down a minor slave revolt in Campania before being sent to take command in Sicily during the Second Servile War.  He was later relieved of his command and prosecuted for embezzlement upon his recall to Rome.  Being convicted, he was banished from the city and lived the remainder of his life in exile.  He is the father of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, conqueror of Mithridates in the Third Mithridatic War. Roman gardens and ornamental horticulture became highly developed under Roman civilization.  The Gardens of Lucullus ("Horti Lucullani"), on the Pincian Hill at the edge of Rome, introduced the Persian garden to Europe around 60 BC.  It was seen as a place of peace and tranquility, a refuge from urban life, and a place filled with religious and symbolic meaning.  As Roman culture developed and became increasingly influenced by foreign civilizations, the use of gardens expanded. Publius Licinius Nerva was a politician of the Roman Republic who, as Praetor, served as Governor of Sicily in 104 BC at the outbreak of the Second Servile War.  Having failed to put down a slave revolt which then rapidly escalated into the Second Servile War he was replaced at the end of his term by Lucius Licinius Lucullus. The Civilization Fund Act was an Act passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819.  The Act encouraged activities of benevolent societies in providing education for Native Americans and authorized an annuity to stimulate the "civilization process".  Thomas L. McKenney lobbied the Congress in support of the legislation.  The Civilization Fund Act led to the formation of numerous Native American boarding schools towards the end of the 19th century. Willis Lucullus Palmer (December 13, 1854 - October 30, 1912) was an American politician, who was the twelfth Mayor of Orlando from 1891 to 1893.  He was also the president of Hamilton College .  He died on October 30, 1912 and was interred at Greenwood Cemetery. Hortensius or On Philosophy is a lost dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the year 45 BC.  The work had followed the conventional form of a protreptic, and taught that genuine human happiness is to be found by using and embracing philosophy.  The dialogue is named after Cicero's friend, the speaker and politician Quintus Hortensius Hortalus.  The two other discussants are Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus.  This meeting takes place in Lucullus' villa.  While the dialogue was extremely popular in the ancient world, the dialogue only survived into the sixth century AD.  Today, it is extant in the fragments preserved by Martianus Capella, Servius, Nonius Marcellus, and Augustine of Hippo.  Out of the four, Augustine preserved the largest portion of text, although the work is still considered lost. Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( ; 118 – 57/56 BC) was an "optimate" politician of the late Roman Republic, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla.  In the culmination of over twenty years of almost continuous military and government service, he became the main conqueror of the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously during the siege of Cyzicus, 73-72 BC, and at the Battle of Tigranocerta in Armenian Arzanene, 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.
Answer: 27 BC