Pro-Caesar, Anti-Sulla

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Aedes Divi Iulii: Julius Caesar and His Times

For discussion of the life of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, and Rome in his time.

Caesar's Contemporaries (8 threads, 728 posts)

Lucius Cornellius Sulla (68 posts)

Historical Thread

Sulla (138-78 BC) was the first general to march on Rome with an army demanding ultimate power. Like Caesar, he was a famous general and bitter enemy of his former mentor, Gaius Marius. Sulla's grab for power and the proscriptions he instituted in becoming dictator of Rome almost led to the death of the young Julius Caesar and strongly influenced Caesar's later career. ...

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Pro-Caesar, Anti-Sulla

Author: * Heraklia Aelius - 18 Posts on this thread out of 7,266 Posts sitewide.
Date: Mar 3, 2006 - 10:46

LOL - you got me cold, Tante. But I suppose one of the reasons I have such problems with Sulla, is that historians for the past few thousand years have blamed a lot of the damage Sulla did to the Republic's fabric, on Caesar, and I think CAesar (while he has tons of his own to answer for) doesn't deserve it.

I suppose, being a good liberal in real life, I just hate reactionaries. They NEVER solve the problem, only make it - in the end - worse! So if you can find a reason I can really approve of Sulla, I'm all for it lol.

Reconsidering Sulla II
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Going out on a limb here