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Sulla - Politics and Reception (Paperback)
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Sulla - Politics and Reception (Paperback)
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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.
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