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48 - Comparison: Lysander and Sulla
Publisher |
Alex Petkas
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Philosophy
Self-Help
Categories Via RSS |
Education
History
Self-Improvement
Publication Date |
Nov 02, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:26:48

How should we look at the lives of “problematic” great figures?  Join us as we join the ancient philosopher Plutarch, in sizing up two incredible men of action.  Who wins?  

 

 

Shout out to sources and inspirations: 

 

Ancient: 

Plutarch, life of Sulla

Plutarch, life of Marius

Plutarch, life of Sertorius

Plutarch, life of Pompey

Plutarch, life of Lucullus

Appian, Civil Wars

Appian, Mithridatic Wars

Cicero, pro Sexto Roscio

Sallust, Jugurtha

 

Secondary:

Arthur Keaveney (R.I.P.), Sulla, The Last Republican

Theodor Mommsen, History of Rome

Gareth Sampson, Collapse of Rome

Catherine Steel, The End of the Roman Republic; “Sulla the Orator”

Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King

 

How should we look at the lives of “problematic” great figures? Join us as we join the ancient philosopher Plutarch, in sizing up two incredible men of action. Who wins?

How should we look at the lives of “problematic” great figures?  Join us as we join the ancient philosopher Plutarch, in sizing up two incredible men of action.  Who wins?  

 

 

Shout out to sources and inspirations: 

 

Ancient: 

Plutarch, life of Sulla

Plutarch, life of Marius

Plutarch, life of Sertorius

Plutarch, life of Pompey

Plutarch, life of Lucullus

Appian, Civil Wars

Appian, Mithridatic Wars

Cicero, pro Sexto Roscio

Sallust, Jugurtha

 

Secondary:

Arthur Keaveney (R.I.P.), Sulla, The Last Republican

Theodor Mommsen, History of Rome

Gareth Sampson, Collapse of Rome

Catherine Steel, The End of the Roman Republic; “Sulla the Orator”

Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King

 

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