Sulla

The restorer, the dictator, and the man who taught Rome that armies could refound the state.

Topic Hub

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.

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.

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First March on Rome

The precedent no later Roman could forget.

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Proscriptions

Political terror turned into legal instrument.

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Dictatorship

Extraordinary power in constitutional crisis.

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In the Library

The Dictatorship

The Sulla volume of the trilogy.

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Source Library

Plutarch

Life of Sulla and moral biography.

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Appian

Civil Wars and proscriptions.

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Theodor Mommsen

Nineteenth-century interpretation.

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Karl Christ

Modern scholarship on the Republic’s crisis.

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Journal

Why Sulla Failed

Restoration by force and its failure.

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The Problem of Restoration

Why restoring offices is not enough.

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Marius and the Army

The military world Sulla inherited.

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