Research Catalog

Title

Sulla : politics and reception / edited by Alexandra Eckert and Alexander Thein.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Eckert, Alexandra
• Thein, Alexander

Description

viii, 207 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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"--Back cover.

Subjects

• Statesmen
• Rome (Empire)
• Statesmen > Rome > Biography
• Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
• 265-30 B.C
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C
• History
• Biographies

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Alexandra Eckert, Alexander Thein ; Part I: Politics. 1. Sulla the Orator / Catherine Steel ; 2. Sulla’s Relations with the Poleis of Central and Southern Greece in a Period of Transitions / Sophia Zoumbaki ; 3. Can a Dictator reform an Electoral System? A Reassessment of Sulla’s Power over Institutions / Cristina Rosillo-López ; 4. Dolabella’s Naval Command / Alexander Thein ; 5 Paludes et Silvae: The Ruin of the Veteran / Arthur Keaveney ; Part II: Reception. 6. Sulla in the Bellum Jugurthinum / Federico Santangelo ; 7. Sulla’s Long Shadow: Sallust in Tacitus and Tacitus in Sallust / J. Alison Rosenblitt ; 8. Sulla and the Philosophers: The Cultural History of the Sack of Athens / Inger N. I. Kuin ; 9. Reconsidering the Sulla Myth / Alexandra Eckert.

Call Number

JFE 20-3253

ISBN

• 9783110618099
• 3110618095
• 9783110624700 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110624823 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1108442685

Title

Sulla : politics and reception / edited by Alexandra Eckert and Alexander Thein.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

265-30 B.C.

Added Author

Eckert, Alexandra, editor.

Thein, Alexander, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3253