That's one book for every 2.7 years he lived. Given that he didn't do anything notable for the first thirty, I can only imagine what they were about.

Volume I: Baby Lucius and I Find Weird Bugs in the Road

Volume VI: Best Lute Tunes to Pick Up Girls

Volume VIII: Blackjack and Orgies

Volume XII: Don't Ask How I Got the Money to Run for Quaestor

Volume XVVI: I Think I Messed Up Numbering These

Volumes XIX, XX, XXI: War, What is It Good For? (My Career!)

Volume XXII: Blackjack and Orgies

If you were going to pin the BEGINNING of the downfall of the Roman Republic on the actions of one Roman

i think it's ok that sulla dug up marius' corpse. he just wanted to have a look. god forbid a man have a curious mind and an inquisitive disposition

Whenever they tell you to "stop saying Sulla's proscriptions were actually fine because he was sexy about it - he won't come back to life and have sex with you" Remember: Nobody expected him to march on Rome either

sulla : i've made a list

senate : like a to do list ?

sulla : no.

diversity win! the bisexual dictator having you executed without trial is ginger

If I had been at the Stabbening you know I would have consumed him. Sulla might have haunted his narrative but at the end it's still me slurpin

Honestly, I too think murder is a reasonable response to someone getting rid of my books.

I love doing things when I should be sleeping

Re: previous reblog, Catiline his conspiracy starts with the ghost of Sulla visiting Catiline to incite him to crimes against the state. However, the real danger in Catiline his conspiracy are Caesar and Crassus rather than Catiline [cf. Domenico Lovascio - "With a “Monster’s Heart": Jonson’s Caesar and the Destruction of Roman Liberty]

So it can be said that in a way these two, and not Catiline, are Sulla's actual audience.

Diversity Win! Actual Roman dictator from history is bad bi rep, kills three people and says babygirl in the first two chapters alone

Marius & Sulla: former friends who'd fought multiple wars together before their conflicting ambitions put them at each other's throats

Caesar & Pompey: former friends and in-laws who both tried to prevent their civil war before pride, suspicion and political pressures tore their alliance up anyway

Antony & Octavian: hate at first sight lmao

I'm normally the last person to feel bad for Julius Caesar but... The man lost his mother and his daughter within less than a month of each other. Which means message service being what it was back then, he more than likely heard about both around the same time. Like the same packet of dispatches probably carried both letters. Can you imagine? The woman who stood between you and a dictator and the woman who's currently your main anchor to security in Rome both gone. It can't have been a great time for Julius' mental health and I just wanna give him a hug wrap him in blankets and make him cups of tea and maybe make him promise not to get all dictator-ey...

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Because Lord knows Aurelia would have absolutely called him on that crap. Can you imagine? He gets to the Rubicon and it's just Aurelia wearing mourning clothes giving him pointed looks over the distress he's caused. I strongly feel the whole "I'm not mad at you for disappointing me I'm just gonna be dramatic about it until you feel bad and do the right thing" mind game tactic that Julius used on his troops whenever they were reluctant or mutinying is something he definitely learned at home from his mom.

Charlotte: he stole mithradatic command!

Miranda: oh please that doesn't justify marching on rome and fighting the marian forces.

Samantha: let’s just say he's not taken up the mantle of DICKtater for nothing

Carrie: big is moving to Gaul

Average Roman general experiencing post march on Rome clarity: this was bad I will not do this again

Lucius Cornelius Sulla who has citizens licking his sword at least twice per day: hehe

*don't cross the pomerium while armed*

Marius : Let me guess this sign can't stop you because you can't read ?

Sulla : I can, I just don't care