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.
- ISBN10 1461741688
- ISBN13 9781461741688
- Publish Date 8 May 2001 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 328
- Language English