Sulla the Fortunate

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.