{"id":92409,"date":"2025-03-09T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92409"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T02:50:24","slug":"sulla-bloodthirsty-psycho-or-saviour-of-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/sulla-bloodthirsty-psycho-or-saviour-of-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sulla: bloodthirsty psycho or saviour of the Republic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWNIoHrk16w?si=933xs1sLcjSyEY4p\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 Oct 2024<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s question asked about Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the first man to the march his legions against the city of Rome, starting the first &mdash; but far from the last &mdash; of Rome&#8217;s civil wars. He killed a lot of people, broke a lot of laws and conventions, but as dictator also introduced a very &#8220;conservative&#8221; programme of reforms. How should we judge Sulla, as a selfish, brutal murderer, or as a reluctant rebel and well-intentioned reformer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 23 Oct 2024 Today&#8217;s question asked about Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the first man to the march his legions against the city of Rome, starting the first &mdash; but far from the last &mdash; of Rome&#8217;s civil wars. He killed a lot of people, broke a lot of laws and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,84,7,5],"tags":[1566,650,1345,561,553,1488],"class_list":["post-92409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-government","category-history","category-military","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-civilwar","tag-romanrepublic","tag-rome","tag-senate","tag-sulla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-o2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92410,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92409\/revisions\/92410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}