Sulla the Fortunate: Roman General and Dictator

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: G. P. Baker
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 05/08/2001
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.54w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780815411475

About the Author
Historian G. P. Baker (1879-1951) is the author of Hannibal, Augustus, and Tiberius Caesar.