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Episode 30. Sulla, Part One: The Man
SOURCE NOTES:
- Plutarch, Life of Sulla -- The primary portrait, drawing on Sulla's own memoirs; essential throughout.
- Appian, Civil Wars Book 1, chapters 55-64 -- The march on Rome and its immediate aftermath.
- Sallust, Histories (fragments) -- The character sketch of Sulla; brief but precise.
- Arthur Keaveney, Sulla: The Last Republican (1982, revised 2005) -- The standard modern biography.
- Ernst Badian, 'Sulla's Cilician Command' in Athenaeum (1959) -- Essential on the Cilician governorship and the first Parthian contact.
- Tom Holland, Rubicon (2003) -- The most readable modern account of the Sullan period; not academic but accurate and vivid.
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By Hugo PrudentiusSOURCE NOTES:
- Plutarch, Life of Sulla -- The primary portrait, drawing on Sulla's own memoirs; essential throughout.
- Appian, Civil Wars Book 1, chapters 55-64 -- The march on Rome and its immediate aftermath.
- Sallust, Histories (fragments) -- The character sketch of Sulla; brief but precise.
- Arthur Keaveney, Sulla: The Last Republican (1982, revised 2005) -- The standard modern biography.
- Ernst Badian, 'Sulla's Cilician Command' in Athenaeum (1959) -- Essential on the Cilician governorship and the first Parthian contact.
- Tom Holland, Rubicon (2003) -- The most readable modern account of the Sullan period; not academic but accurate and vivid.