Fortuna’s Favorite Son Who Became the First Dictator of Rome

Though today he is not as famous as the likes of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, or Augustus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, in his day, was as important a figure as any of the above-mentioned. In many regards, he was an early precursor for all of the them, serving as both an example and perhaps even as an inspiration for the giants who dominated the last two decades of the Roman Republic. A man of many sides and talents, Sulla’s rise to the top of Rome’s food chain was more unlikely than Caesar’s, easily as bloody, if not more, than that of Antony or Augustus, and rather surprisingly ended with the ambitious Sulla giving up power on his own accord to spend the last years of his life drinking and partying before his liver had enough and gave up on him. <a href="https://medium.com/teatime-history/fortunas-favorite-son-who-became-the-first-dictator-of-rome-e9a37a7a4784">Website</a>