Sulla the Fortunate

Download or read book Sulla the Fortunate written by G. P. Baker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dictator for the generations that followed his death—the most famous dictator to follow Sulla's systematic path to power was Julius Caesar. In his lifetime, Sulla faced issues such as the decay of religious faith, the end of the aristocracy, the rise of the proletariat, and the growth of international finance. It was unquestionably a momentous era in the world's history, and Sulla's story is a tale of the Roman ambition par excellence: alliances, battles against rival Roman armies, plots, assassinations, and a civil war initiated by Sulla himself in which he seized power.