Sulla: Politics and Reception

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Sulla

Politics and Reception

Edited by: Alexandra Eckert and Alexander Thein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624700

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About this book

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.

International collaborative volume on Sulla, a key figure of the late Roman Republic
Sulla's political impact in Rome, Italy and the Greek East
Sulla’s reception in Greek and Roman writers and in modern scholarship

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Alexandra Eckert, University of Goettingen, Germany, Alexander Thein, University College Dublin, Ireland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Alexandra Eckert and Alexander Thein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Politics
1. Sulla the Orator Catherine Steel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Sulla’s Relations with the Poleis of Central and Southern Greece in a Period of Transitions Sophia Zoumbaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Can a Dictator reform an Electoral System? A Reassessment of Sulla’s Power over Institutions Cristina Rosillo-López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. Dolabella’s Naval Command Alexander Thein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5 Paludes et Silvae: The Ruin of the Veteran Arthur Keaveney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part II: Reception
6. Sulla in the Bellum Jugurthinum Federico Santangelo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Sulla’s Long Shadow: Sallust in Tacitus and Tacitus in Sallust J. Alison Rosenblitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. Sulla and the Philosophers: The Cultural History of the Sack of Athens Inger N. I. Kuin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9. Reconsidering the Sulla Myth Alexandra Eckert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index of Ancient Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index of Ancient Persons and Deities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index of Ancient Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, ancient historians, archaeologists, scholars of antiquity
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 207
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix; Reception history; Ancient Rome; Dictatorship

eBook

Published: November 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110624700

Hardcover

Published: November 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110618099

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110763331