Sulla the Fortunate Roman General and Dictator,9780815411475

Sulla the Fortunate Roman General and Dictator

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ISBN13: 9780815411475
ISBN10: 0815411472
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-08
Publisher(s): Cooper Square Press
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Summary

This biography takes a redemptive view of the remarkable personality and bloody career of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman general and consul.

Author Biography

Deaf since the age of eight, G. P. Baker (1879-1951) became one of the most popular and respected historians of the 1920s and 1930s

Table of Contents

Preface 5(14)
Importance of Sulla
The key to Sulla lost
``Recapitulation'' in social development
Modernity of Sulla
Dictatorship
The parallel only approximate
Sources
The unknown is to be interpreted by the known.
Sulla
19(21)
State of Europe
Britain
The Frisians
The Baltic
Germany
Gaul
The small political unit
Limitation of energy
Rome the real centre of interest
Rome in Sulla's day
An age of transition
Ancestry of Sulla
Sulla's person
Eccentricity of his appearance
His early days
His family poor
The lady Nicopolis
His stepmother
His Bohemian tastes
The drama
Complexity of his character
His passivity
His conventionality
Limits of his conventionality
His caution
He was an opportunist on principle
The theory of ``Fortune''
The Antecedents Of Sulla's World
40(25)
``Mediterranean'' civilisation
The city state
Evolution of the tribe
Larger political units the ideal
The state rationalised
The abolition of kingship
Political control made responsible
Development of Rome
Law brought under the control of the state
The aristocracy controlled by law
Abolition of privilege
The state strengthened by the changes
The war of Hannibal
The Roman state proof against force
Ruin of the peasantry
The problem of action
Tiberius Gracchus
Economic action to be controlled by the state
Impatience of Tiberius
He is murdered
Gaius Gracchus
The bankers support Gaius
The state to be controlled by economic forces
The financiers privileged
Projected extension of the Roman franchise
Gaius a revolutionary
Drusus the elder
The electors detached from Gaius
Force employed
The movement suppressed
Consequences of the suppression
Sulla's World
65(21)
Sulla aet. 17
The prestige of law damaged
Importance of Rome
Objections to the Gracchan policy
Importance of the aristocratic tradition
Difference between the oligarchy and the aristocracy
The aristocracy and wealth
Divorce of political and economic power
The roots of Roman rule
The Romans possessed the gift of association
The aristocracy originated it
Decay of aristocracy
Educative effects of aristocracy
The expansion of Rome a consistent process
Difficulties consequent
Necessity of unity in the control
The bankers and merchants
Parallel with the nineteenth century
Insecurity of the state
The problem of popular rights
Power of the economic control
Economic effects of slavery
The European character
Variability of the European type
Disqualifications of the European as a master
Political control necessary
The aristocratic policy the only practicable one
Sulla's relation to these theories
His conduct explained by them
The Rise Of Sulla To Fortune
86(27)
Character of Gaius Marius
Marius tribune, 119 B.C.
Marius praetor, 115 B.C.
Propraetor in Spain, 114 B.C.
He marries into the family of Caesar
The trouble in Africa
Jugurtha
Revival of the Populares
The African war
Trouble in the North
Competence of the oligarchy in question
Marius in Africa, 108 B.C.
Marius Consul I, 107, B.C.
The army reforms of Marius
Sulla quaestor aet. 31
Marius commander in chief in Africa, 106 B.C.
Difficulties of the war
Sulla arrives in Africa
The problem of King Bocchus
Sulla sent to Bocchus
Sulla receives the ambassadors
The embassy in Rome
Sulla's second mission to Bocchus
Danger on the road
Sulla reaches Bocchus
The official conference
The secret conference
Sulla successful
Bocchus and Jugurtha
Capture of Jugurtha, 105 B.C.
The Triumph Of Marius
113(20)
Fresh danger
The Cimbri and Teutones
Party position in Rome
Caepio in Gaul
Defeat at Arausio
Panic in Italy
Demand for Marius
The crime of Caepio
Marius Consul II, 104 B.C.
His triumph
Sulla legate under Marius
The new army
Marius Consul III, 103 B.C.
Doubts of Marius
Marius Consul IV, 102 B.C.
Sulla takes work under Catulus
Movements of the Cimbri and Teutones
Battle of Aquae Sextiae
Marius Consul V, 101 B.C.
Catulus in retreat
The Cimbri
Battle of Vercellae
Sulla's version of the battle
Dispute on the field
The Political Struggle
133(30)
Problems of the peace
Electoral campaign, 101 B.C.
Sulla's political position
Criticisms of Marius
Sulla's view of Marius
Catulus
Relation of Catulus and Sulla
Metellus Numidicus
Marius as a politician
Marius Consul VI, 100 B.C.
The cabal against Marius
Saturninus and the Senate
Difficulties of Marius
``The Catonic pose''
The equities go over
Elections for 99 B.C.--Triumph of the oligarchy
The Italians
Marius travels in Asia
The Italians and the franchise
Scaevola: lex Licinia Mucia
The equestrian courts again
Hesitation of the oligarchy
The ``group''
Scaevola's administration in Asia
Rutilius impeached
Sulla praetor, 93 B.C., aet. 45
Rutilius condemned
Exiled
Condition of Asia--Character of Mitharadates--Asiatic despotism
Policy of Sulla
Results
The gold plaque
Impeachment dropped
Drusus the younger
The programme of Drusus
Difficulty of his policy
His success
His failure
His murder
Revolt of the Italians.
The Military Struggle In Italy
163(26)
The Social War, 90 B.C.
The opposing forces
Change in character of Rome
The Italians apprehend the true nature of the war
The Varian tribunal
Sulla in Campania
Roman reverses
Marius in central Italy
Success of Marius
Dissensions in Rome
Problem of the franchise
Change of opinion
Italians weakened by the concessions made to them
Changes in command, 89 B.C.
Sulla commands in Campania
The reversion of the Asiatic command
Second year of the war
Sulla and his army
Sulla's raid into Samnium
His success
The war a military defeat but a moral victory for the Italians
Consequences of the war
News of Mithradates
The massacres in Asia
Italy seriously damaged by the Social War
Alarm of the equities
Sulpicius Rufus
Sulla Consul I, 88 B.C., ate. 50
``Fortune''
His marriage to Caecilia Metella
Lampoons against Sulla--Sulla's action against Sulpicius
Sulla is assaulted and intimidated
The eastern command offered to Marius
sulla prepares to enforce his claims
Murder of the tribunes
Sulla's march on Rome
Entry into the city
Escape of Marius
Death of Sulpicius
Audacity of Sulla's act
Its justification
His intentions
His measures of pacification
He leaves for the east
Sulla In Greece
189(18)
Situation in Greece
Sulla's advance
Lucullus
the siege of Athens
Difficulties of supply
Requistion of the treasures of Delphi
The siege drags
III news from Rome
Athens taken by assault
The army of relief
The journey of Lucullus
Reaction against Mithradates
Sulla in Boeotia
Arrival of the Pontic army
Sulla occupies the fords
The entrenched position
Battle of Chaeronea
The Pontic left wing broken
Rout of the Pontic army
The Vengeance of Marius And The Retention of Asia
207(30)
Italy unsettled
The equites dissatisfied
Cinna acts for them
Blundering of Octavius
civil war
Arrival of Marius
He takes Ostia
The Senate surrenders to Cinna
Mental condition of Marius
The Marian proscription
Impossibility of controlling him
Marius Consul VII, 86 B.C.
Death of Marius
The Populares supreme
Their intellectual impotence
The refugees flee to Sulla
Flaccus sent to supersede Sulla--Sulla and Flaccus
They part
Sulla at Orchomenos
The new Pontic army
Sulla's engineering
Archelaus attacks the ditches
Sulla's complete success
Flight and death of Flaccus
The war goes against Mithradates
Negotiations
Sulla drafts terms
Attempt to modify the terms
Sulla's interview with Mithradates
The terms ratified
The army disappointed
Fimbria
The Fimbrian army melts
Attempt to assassinate Sulla
Suicide of Fimbria
Settlement of Asia
Sulla's financial diplomacy
Legal position of Sulla
He writes to the Senate
Cinna murdered.
Sulla Comes Home
237(17)
83 B.C., Sulla, aet. 55
Sulla's rest in Greece
Difficulties of invading Italy
His undertakings
He lands in Italy
The March to Campania
Defeat of Norbanus
Accessions to Sulla
Crassus
Pompeius
Sulla meets Pompeius
Negotiations with Lucius Scipio
Sulla alleges an agreement with the Consul
82 B.C. Sulla, aet. 56
Sulla's plans
Advance of Metellus Pius
Sulla's advance
The troops worn out
Battle of Sacriportus
Praeneste invested
Murder of Scaevola
Sulla's advance on Carbo
The arrival of the Samnites
Carbo flees--Samnites resolve to destroy Rome
They are delayed by a sally
Battle of the Colline Gate
Sulla's troops broken
Panic
Crassus successful
End of the battle of the Colline Gate
The Dictatorship of Sulla
254(27)
State of Rome
Sulla's triumph
``Sulla Felix''
His policy
The problem of restoration
The logic of events
Massacre of the prisoners
Praeneste taken
Fate of other towns
The Dictatorship
Its terms
Samnium devastated
Financial difficulties
The ``Capital levy''
Principle of the Sullan proscription
Doubts of his friends
The lists
Views of the proscription
Scandals
Sulla unable to prevent abuses
The auctions
Success of the Proscription
Sulla's creative measures
Poverty of material for a new aristocracy
Sulla's practical reforms
The franchise confirmed to the Italians
Local government
The franchise partly ineffective
Land colonisation
The equites
Legal reforms
The Senate
Civil and military power separated
Sulla's aim the repression of monarchy
Reasons against monarchy
Sulla Consul II, 80 B.C., aet. 58
Sulla ignoring the real truth
His inconsistency.
The Death of Sulla
281(14)
Pompeius in Sicily
His tolerance
Sulla disappointed in him
Pompeius recalled
Pompeius and the opposition
Breach between him and Sulla
The turn of the tide
Sulla contemplates failure
The Opimian wine
Death of Metella
Valeria Messalla--Ofella
The parable of the husbandman
Lepidus
Sulla's verdict on Pompeius
Sulla resigns
He retires
Attacked by sickness
His commentaries
He bursts a blood
vessel
His death, 78 B.C., aet. 60
Pompeius protects the dead man
The funeral
The Death of Sulla's World
295(23)
Reaction
Sulla's success temporary
The oligarchy
Mithradates
Sertorius in Spain
Spartacus
Fall of Sertorius
Pompeius burns the correspondence of Sertorius
Weakness of the Populares
Rise of Crassus
Consulship of Pompeius and Crassus
Sulla's constitution cancelled
Lucullus in Asia
Caesar
The memory of Marius revived
Lex Gabinia, 67 B.C.
Lex Manilia, 66 B.C.
Caesar financed by the bankers
The trophies of Marius restored
Dissensions among the Populares
Conspiracy of Catilina
Caesar in sole control of the Populares
The first Triumvirate, 60 B.C.
Caesar goes to Gaul
The Triumvirate renewed, 56 B.C.
Results of the murder of Caesar
The empire
Review of Sulla's work
Realism of Caesar
The empire a new type of monarchy
Aristocracy cannot be deliberately created
The oligarchy neglected ability
The army becomes a guild
Political power controls all others
The change beneficial to the economic Power
The empire ended the political evolution of Rome
Defects of Caesar's policy
Christianity necessary as a counterbalance
Christianity a ``political'' organisation
Dualism of allegiance unsatisfactory
Faults of Sulla
Sulla's work a stage in our own evolution
Index 318

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