Episode 30. Sulla, Part One: The Man

Works CitedPrimary SourcesAppian. Civil Wars, Book 1, chapters 55–64. The march on Rome and its immediate aftermath.Plutarch. “Life of Sulla.” The primary portrait, drawing on Sulla's own memoirs; essential throughout.Sallust. Histories (fragments). The character sketch of Sulla; brief but precise.Secondary SourcesBadian, Ernst. “Sulla's Cilician Command.” Athenaeum, 1959. Essential on the Cilician governorship and the first Parthian contact.Holland, Tom. Rubicon. 2003. The most readable modern account of the Sullan period; not academic but accurate and vivid.Keaveney, Arthur. Sulla: The Last Republican. 1982, revised 2005. The standard modern biography.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/real-roman-history/donations