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Plutarch · c. AD 46-after 119

Life of Sulla

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Plutarch's Life of Sulla follows Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman of patrician family whose ancestors had become obscure, from his youth and service as quaestor to Marius to his dictatorship and death from disease. It covers his rivalry with Marius, his war against Mithridates in Greece, including the siege of Athens and the battles of Chaeroneia and Orchomenus, the peace at Dardanus, the civil war in Italy, the proscriptions, and his last years. It is paired with the Life of Lysander, and the Comparison of Lysander and Sulla follows as its last section.

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Text
Greek original with English translation, 18 passages, about 18800 words in English.
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin (1916)
Edition
Bernadotte Perrin (ed. and trans.), Plutarch's Lives, vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1916 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as
Plutarch, Life of Sulla 1.1 (by chapter, section; Comparison: comp, chapter, section)

Contents · 18 passages

  1. 1.1–4.4Sulla's family, looks and youth; Bocchus, Jugurtha and the rivalry with Marius1247 words
  2. 5.1–6Sulla's praetorship, Cappadocia and the Parthian embassy536 words
  3. 6.1–12The Social War, Sulla and Fortune, Metella and his marriages1138 words
  4. 7.1–8.4Prodigies of a new age and the tribune Sulpicius882 words
  5. 9.1–10.4Sulla marches on Rome; Marius flees and Cinna becomes consul1053 words
  6. 11.1–13.4Mithridates' portent at Pergamum, Archelaus, and the siege of Athens under Aristion1490 words
  7. 14.1–15.4The fall of Athens and the move into Boeotia911 words
  8. 16.1–17.7Before Chaeroneia: Sulla's discipline and the oracle of Trophonius1273 words
  9. 18.1–19.6The battle of Chaeroneia949 words
  10. 20.1–21.4The battle of Orchomenus762 words
  11. 22.1–25.2Peace with Mithridates at Dardanus; the end of Fimbria1388 words
  12. 26.1–27.8The library of Apellicon, the men of Halae, the satyr and Sulla's return to Italy963 words
  13. 28.1–29.8The civil war in Italy: Scipio, Marius at Signia and the Colline Gate1328 words
  14. 30.1–32.2The massacre of prisoners, the proscriptions and the fall of Praeneste1122 words
  15. 33.1–34.5Sulla dictator: Ofella's murder, his triumph, the surname Felix and his resignation718 words
  16. 35.1–36.4Metella's death, Valeria and the disease that eats Sulla691 words
  17. 37.1–38.4The death and funeral of Sulla529 words
  18. comp.1.1–comp.5.5Comparison of Lysander and Sulla1850 words

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English translation by Bernadotte Perrin (1916). Original text: Bernadotte Perrin (ed. and trans.), Plutarch's Lives, vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1916 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus).

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