William Luhtala Luhtala itibaren Garoli Khurd, Haryana, Hindistan
This made over dissertation looks in depth at Sulla. While it makes a few interesting conjectures about Sulla's psychology, and the reasoning behind some of his actions, and has one or two pearls, this book was mostly a let down. The only real interesting point I found was that Sulla wasn't the first to fully exploit Marius's army reforms, he was really the first to bring the army into the political sphere at Rome. Finding similarities in the story line between Sulla's march on Rome, his rise to the dictatorship, and the justifications provided by C. Julius Caesar made this book at least worth a look, as most books I have read about Caesar do not make explicit the fact that he used many of the same justifications for marching on Rome as Sulla had done some 30 years before.