It's odd because I knew all of this, but going over it again and writing it out was an oddly sharp experience. Plutarch's description of Sulla in the Temple of Bellona just...eash. Eash. What a monster.
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So actually teaching a History of Rome course rather than a bigger ancient world survey means writing an entire lecture on Sulla and the events of 88-78. Which I did. Eash. And now I am going to go pet cats and eat ice cream.
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Sounds like a dream
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Who's a modern day equivalent of Sulla people may be familiar with? Stalin?
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Franco? A murderous autocratic dictator who is also a patriot who believes in his country and its republic but you know...murdered a ton of people and is an absolute monster.
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Ooof. I'm reading about Bibulus and the whole augury crisis right now for something I'm working on and the parallels to modern-day filibuster are making my stomach turn, IDK how people teach the late Republic era for more than like a brief overview without getting ulcers.
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if only that monster Sulla had been defeated by his nemesis, the great Mithridates of Pontus, who [checks notes] oh no. no. nononono...
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I recently spent a few thousand pages with a fictionalized version of him in Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series -- and it was a lot more fun than it sounds! But yeah, the only times Sulla was ever unabashedly admirable was when leading soldiers on the battlefield...
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