Overview
The Sulla hub brings together material on the first great constitutional rupture of the late Republic: the march on Rome, the proscriptions, the dictatorship, and the problem of restoration through force.
Atlas Entries
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The dictator whose restoration transformed the Republic.
OpenFirst March on Rome
The precedent no later Roman could forget.
OpenProscriptions
Political terror turned into legal instrument.
OpenDictatorship
Extraordinary power in constitutional crisis.
OpenFirst Mithridatic War
The command that broke the old political order.
OpenFelix
Fortune as identity and political claim.
OpenIn the Library
The Dictatorship
The Sulla volume of the trilogy.
OpenCommand and Rivalry
The eastern command and the rivalry with Marius.
OpenMithridatic War Hub
The eastern war that made Sulla's command decisive.
OpenRome Divided
The divided Republic, Cinna’s regime, and Sulla’s return from the East.
OpenSource Library
Plutarch
Life of Sulla and moral biography.
OpenAppian
Civil Wars and proscriptions.
OpenTheodor Mommsen
Nineteenth-century interpretation.
OpenKarl Christ
Modern scholarship on the Republic’s crisis.
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