Sulla

Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Eighty-six minutes with the Rex Factor hosts, who score monarchs the way this show scores emperors. Two scoring systems arguing about the same dictator is a better introduction to Sulla than either alone.

Part of HistoryMarche

The dictatorship as a template, and the argument that Caesar copied a working model. Sulla laid down the office voluntarily, which is the part Caesar left out.

Part of The Rest Is History

Holland and Sandbrook on the Cimbri and Teutones smashing into the Republic, and on Marius rebuilding the army to stop them. The moment the legions began swearing to a general.

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

Part of The Ancients

With Alex Petkas

The man who marched on Rome, won, posted lists of citizens who could be killed for their property, and then resigned. Everything after him is downstream of the first two of those.

Part of Life of Caesar

The young Caesar captured by pirates, demanding they raise his ransom, and crucifying them afterwards as promised. Forty-nine minutes on the anecdote that tells you the rest.

Part of HistoryMarche

Part one of the animated Sulla series, on the first Roman army to march on its own city.

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Ancient World

Thirty minutes on the last Seleucid claimants holding Syria against Parthians, usurpers and Rome closing from both directions.

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

Part of HistoryMarche

Faventia in 82 BC, where the animation shows morale deciding a battle that numbers said should go the other way.

Part of HistoryMarche

The battle fought at the walls of Rome itself, which settled Sulla's war and began the proscriptions.

Part of Understanding Rome · Agnes Crawford, licensed guide in Rome

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

Part of The History of Rome · Mike Duncan, 179 episodes, 2007 to 2012

Part of Life of Caesar

Arthur Keaveney, who wrote the standard biography of Sulla, on whether the dictator believed his own restoration. An hour with someone who has spent a career on the question.