Sulla

Author : Arthur Keaveney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134305865

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Sulla by Arthur Keaveney Pdf

In this second edition of Arthur Keaveney's classic biography, a fresh generation of students, scholars and readers are introduced to one of the most pivotal figures in the outgoing Roman Empire. A definitive book in its field, this second edition is a must read. Completely rewritten and updated to include the further discoveries of the last two decades, it challenges traditional views of Sulla as a tyrant and harsh military dictator and instead delivers a compellingly complex portrait of a man obsessed with the belief that he was blessed with divine favour. Written by a leading authority on the classical world, this lively and entertaining book transports us through Sulla's rise from poverty and obscurity to his dictatorship of Rome, highlighting his dedication and achievements in better ordering the Republic before his decline a generation later.

Author : Federico Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004163867

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Sulla, the Elites and the Empire by Federico Santangelo Pdf

This book is a study of Sulla s policies in Italy and in the Greek East. Its main aim is to show how Sulla revived Rome s alliances with the local elites at a critical moment for the survival of her Mediterranean hegemony. The discussion calls into play a wide range of political, economic and religious issues, and the argument is developed from three complementary standpoints: role of elites, administration, and ideology. Sulla, the Elites and the Empire deals with both the impact of a prominent individual and the impact of the Roman empire. It sets outs to offer a new understanding of Sulla and his age and, more generally, to contribute to the understanding of the late Roman Republic.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plutarch's Life Of Lucius Cornelius Sulla by Plutarch Pdf

Excerpt from Plutarch's Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla: With Introduction, Notes, and a Lexicon There is not any more marvellous character in history; certainly none more prominent among the warriors and statesmen of the Roman Republic, than Lucius Cornelius Sulla, nor is there any among Plutarch's lives of Roman worthies that surpasses in importance and interest that of the great Dictator, based, as it undoubtedly is, upon the autobiographical Memoirs, which occupied him in his retirement near Puteoli until a few days before his death. Yet, notwithstanding the interest attaching to the subject, it has shared the general neglect in which Plutarch's Bz'ograpfiz'es have fallen among Scholars, nor has an Editor been found to bestow any care upon this historical portrait of the foremost figure in a most eventful epoch - the deliverer of Rome and the accomplisher of Italian unity - since the' year 1795, when E. H. G. Leopold published the first and only adequately annotated, though uncritical, edition of the Life of Sui/a, combining with it those of Marius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lynda Telford
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783030484

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Sulla by Lynda Telford Pdf

Lucius Cornelius Sulla is one of the central figures of the late Roman Republic. Indeed, he is often considered a major catalyst in the death of the republican system. the ambitious general whose feud with a rival (Marius) led to his marching on Rome with an army at his back, leading to civil war and the terrible internecine bloodletting of the proscriptions. In these things, and in his appropriation of the title of dictator with absolute power, he set a dangerous precedent to be followed by Julius Caesar a generation later. ??Lynda Telford believes Sulla's portrayal as a monstrous, brutal tyrant is unjustified. While accepting that he was responsible for much bloodshed, she contends that he was no more brutal than many of his contemporaries who have received a kinder press. Moreover, even his harshest measures were motivated not by selfish ambition but by genuine desire to do what he believed best for Rome. The author believes the bias of the surviving sources, and modern biographers, has exaggerated the ill-feeling towards Sulla in his lifetime. After all, he voluntarily laid aside dictatorial power and enjoyed a peaceful retirement without fear of assassination. The contrast to Caesar is obvious. ??Lynda Telford gives a long overdue reappraisal of this significant personality, considering such factors as the effect of his disfiguring illness. The portrait that emerges is a subtle and nuanced one; her Sulla is very much a human, not a monster.

Author : Federico Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047423713

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Sulla, the Elites and the Empire by Federico Santangelo Pdf

This book is a study of Sulla’s policies in Italy and in the Greek East. Its main aim is to show how Sulla revived Rome’s alliances with the local elites at a critical moment for the survival of her Mediterranean hegemony. The discussion calls into play a wide range of political, economic and religious issues, and the argument is developed from three complementary standpoints: role of elites, administration, and ideology. Sulla, the Elites and the Empire deals with both the impact of a prominent individual and the impact of the Roman empire. It sets outs to offer a new understanding of Sulla and his age and, more generally, to contribute to the understanding of the late Roman Republic.

Author : G. P. Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461741688

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Sulla the Fortunate by G. P. Baker Pdf

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.

Author : Alexandra Eckert,Alexander Thein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110624700

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Sulla by Alexandra Eckert,Alexander Thein Pdf

This book brings together an international group of scholars to offer new perspectives on the political impact and afterlife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 B.C.), one of the most important figures in the complex history of the last century of the Roman Republic. It looks beyond the march on Rome, the violence of the proscriptions, or the logic of his political reforms, and offers case studies to illustrate his relations with the Roman populace, the subject peoples of the Greek East, and his own supporters, both veterans and elites, highlighting his long-term political impact and, at times, the limits on his exercise of power. The chapters on reception reassess the good/bad dichotomy of Sulla as tyrant and reformer, focusing on Cicero, while also examining his importance for Sallust, and his characterisation as the antithesis of philhellenism in Greek writers of the Imperial period. Sulla was not straightforward, either as a historical figure or exemplum, and the case studies in this book use the twin approach of politics and reception to offer new readings of Sulla’s aims and impact, both at home and abroad, and why he remained of interest to authors from Sallust to Plutarch and Aelian.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521604214

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Cicero: Pro P. Sulla Oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius' reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.

Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472580603

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Rome after Sulla by J. Alison Rosenblitt Pdf

Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383073

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From the Gracchi to Sulla by Anonim Pdf

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Roman history during the half century from the Gracchi to Sulla (133-80 BC), with a brief Introduction. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.

Author : Augustus Henry Beesly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : NYPL:33433081550737

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The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla by Augustus Henry Beesly Pdf

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924026703078

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Pro P. Cornelio Sulla by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

Author : Silvio ZENI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018999146

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Sulla guerra. Cenni storico-politici by Silvio ZENI Pdf

Author : Ateneo (SALÒ)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018256985

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Memorie sulla Biblioteca dell'Ateneo di Salò by Ateneo (SALÒ) Pdf

Author : Petrus POMPONATIUS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018106115

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Sulla Immortalità dell'Anima e critica della dottrina del Pomponazzi by Petrus POMPONATIUS Pdf