#Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

[sforzesco]

Moreover, Caesar was not satisfied to be over­looked at first by Sulla, who was busy with a multitude of proscriptions, but he came before the people as candidate for the priesthood, although he was not yet much more than a stripling. To this candidacy Sulla secretly opposed himself, and took measures to make Caesar fail in it, and when he was deliberating about putting him to death and some said there was no reason for killing a mere boy like him

Plutarch, Caesar

sulla's fight with caesar is extremely funny, but also very Something considering how much of sulla you see reflected in caesar's later actions. breaking news: grown man picks fight with teenager, more at 11.

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[stcantarella]

mark antony: if I was sulla I'd never proscribe my citizens

[5 years later]

cicero: hoohoohee

mark: hmm

[catoswound]

the dictatorpilled proscriptionmaxxer. the sullerrrrrr

[historical-kitten]

Inviting Ancient Roman Politicians to a Modern Costume Party

Gaius Julius Caesar

Enjoys a good party and accepts your invitation, but when you go to pick him up you aren't sure if he's in a costume or just dresses like that. It's a very fabulous look. Or maybe he's dressed up as Elton John?

Marcus Licinius Crassus

The only way he attends is if you bribe him to go. He takes cash, Google pay, Apple Pay, Paypal, Cash App, and Venmo. It costs extra if you want him in a costume.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus aka Pompey

He will accept your invitation, but he wants to go in one of those inflatable costumes that looks like he's riding an elephant. If you can fit that in your car and through all the doorways, he'll be decent company at the party.

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus aka Augustus

If Agrippa is meeting you there, lead with that and you might convince him to join you. He'll want all the details on the party and who will be there, so indulge him. He doesn't particularly want to wear a costume, but might dress as Apollo if pressed.

Marcus Antonius aka Mark Antony

He will absolutely come to your party, you don't even have to twist his arm. He likely takes it over once he arrives, though, so be prepared! He is fun and charming, but will not be going home sober. He might dress as Hercules, Dionysus, or Osiris.

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

The way he disappears when you're at the party, he might as well be dressed as the Invisible Man. No really. Where'd he go?

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

He will go and stay with you, a loyal friend, unless Octavianus shows up and then he ultimately follows him. He didn't wear a costume but let someone paint a teardrop on his face. He wins "Most Original Costume" for his 'personification of human sadness' outfit. He doesn't look happy about it.

Publius Clodius Pulcher

He's always up for a party and will look a million times better in his costume than you do. Whatever you do, don't tell him about that girl's night only Halloween party unless you want him to show up dressed like one of the girls. (He'll be really fun, but might cause a divorce.)

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius

He is gracious as a guest and wears a nautical Captain's costume. He'll party with you, but not over indulge. Just don't ask if he's a pirate, that's rude.

Marcus Junius Brutus

He only accepts the invitation if friends of his are going to the party. His costume seems to be a dark hood and cape and he disappears into the corner with Cassius soon after you arrive.

Gaius Cassius Longinus

He is quite amiable with his friends and if he's yours, he'll accept your invitation. The costume is sleek and dark and furtive, possibly a rogue or assassin? Just don't be hurt when he disappears into a corner with Brutus at some point in the night.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

You do not want to invite him, do you? If you do, he accepts. Although he was wearing regular clothes initially, they're definitely covered in blood before you're at the party for long. That's fake blood... right?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You have to cajole him to go, but once he is there, he is happy to be the center of attention telling jokes and stories. Wearing a costume is beneath his dignity, but judging everyone else's is not.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Apparently Agrippina the Younger could have been briefly married to a guy called Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix?

Thus Wikipedia, referencing Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 172

The Sullae during the principate are so weird to me. Especially because they keep the cognomen Felix and favour the praenomens Faustus and Lucius.

[marcusagrippa]

lucius cornelius sulla felix dictator is a beautiful name for a baby girl

[warmuse]

Me, watching the pre-release streamer footage back in early July: hey look that guy is named Sulla! A cute Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix reference, I wonder what that means to his lore

Me, after NG++, lurking on multiple online discussions, a lot of mental gymnastics : holy smokes of course he is named after Sulla, that's so sick man, a reference that alludes to NG++ endgame that early on? Typical Fromsoft behavior tbh

[wouldyourfavsmokecigs]

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

lucius cornelius sulla felix

[icouldntthinkofabetternamesook]

Resurrected Mortals who should have shown up in Heroes of Olympus: (an evolving list)

Dido queen of Carthage(oh a foreign sorceress forced to fall in love with a visiting roman who set herself on fire to die in despair? I think she would have a lot to say to Piper, Hazel, Leo and Annabeth. The ultimate enemy of roman, the coolest girl on the block)

Cassandra(I love her. we don't really need to keep beating the dead horse that is the gods being dicks, but it would be great if she gave them all a bunch of very direct prophecies they cannot help but ignore. it would hurt but it would be cool)

Hector(I think he's neat and is sort of a narrative precursor to Jason as the prototype of the roman ideal. I love having the enemy of the greeks being the coolest guy ever. He would have some things to say about the greek ideal)

Andromache and all the trojan women actually(the greek/roman divide is actually the achean/trojan divide writ large and the trojan woman is an amazing play. I want them to yell at people)

the whole damn house of Atreus killing each other in cycles(It would be so fucked up and I want to see it)

Helen(she should talk to piper and Annabeth, she deserves to have her own voice heard, rick gave no respect on her name and that should be remedied)

Odepius and Jocasta as a divorced couple sharing custody of Antigone, Ismane and the boys(it would never get by Disney sensors, but what was done with the boys in the Annabeth perspective rewrite the Necklace of Harmonia was so good it really should be cannon. Ismane and Antigone's conflict over the law of the gods vs the law of man could be really interesting)

Caesar actually(we can also bring back historical figures and in fact we should, how did we ever pass up the opportunity)

Mark Antony(I think it would be neat, bonus points if he's hanging out in a Shakespeare production of himself)

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (I really liked learning about him in my roman history class and I think he should get to tear into the Roman Empire)

feel free to add your own

[samasaur]

Okay I’m gonna need out here a bit but this is actually SUCH a cool coin.

So to start with, you've gotta understand that you could just mint coins in the Roman Republic. Currency wasn't standardized, so if you had enough influence and enough wealth to actually make the coins out of (such as if you were a conquering general), you could just design a coin for use as propaganda and then pay all your soldiers using it. This gets very popular in the later years of the Republic.

Despite this, however, it took until 82 BC for the first Roman to put himself on a coin. The man who did was Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix — the same Sulla who won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man in Roman history to seize power by force, reviving the office of dictator. He was the last to hold the dictatorship before Julius Caesar, to put things in perspective.

It's worth noting that Julius Caesar himself was the first Roman to put his own head on a coin. This is kinda a big distinction from Sulla's coin:

where the obverse (the front side, here shown on the left) is the head of Roma, the personification of the Roman state, and Sulla himself is only shown on the reverse, and there only as part of a scene of action.

To contrast, here is Julius Caesar's coin:

where on the obverse is the head of Caesar, surrounded by the text CAESAR DICT PERPETUO, or "Caesar, Dictator for Life". It is no small wonder that this coin is known as "the coin that killed Caesar".

A small note on the office of dictator: in contrast to the modern definition, a Roman dictator was a formalized (though extraordinary) office of the state. When the Roman state faced a threat that could not be handled by its normal magistrates for some reason, a dictator was appointed. When dealing with the specific threat they were appointed to counter, they had power exceeding that of all other magistrates, though still subject to oversight from the Senate and the tribunes of the plebs. When the crisis was resolved, the dictator would immediately resign their powers. There were numerous dictators in Roman history who dealt with their respective crises and then peacefully gave up their powers, so the office itself wasn't inherently destructive to the state.

Anyway, so this is all to say that for someone allegedly trying to restore the Republic, by putting his own head on a coin Brutus is getting off to a rocky start. But regardless, let's take a closer look at the coin:

I've put pictures of both gold and silver examples of the coin — these are more readable examples than the photo shown in the tweet.

On the obverse, we see the head of Brutus, along with the text BRUT IMP and L PLAET CEST. The latter refers to Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus, who struck the coin (it's typical to see some mark indicating who minted the coin on Roman coins). The former is short for BRUTUS IMPERATOR, or "Commander Brutus".

Another side note, this time on the title Imperator. The modern association of the term is with emperor, and while this became true with the foundation of the Roman Empire, it was not yet true in Republican Rome. During the Roman Republic, the title of imperator was an honor given to a commander by their troops after an especially great victory. It did not simply indicate that the commander has authority over their troops, but was a great honor that they had to earn in the battle. The earning of the title imperator allowed the commander to receive a triumph from the Senate, which was an immense honor, one which also made commander who received them extremely popular.

As Brutus was never hailed as imperator nor did he ever receive a triumph, the usage of IMP on this coin is clearly an attempt to spin the assassination of Caesar as a victory in battle worthy of a triumph.

Moving on to the reverse, it has a pileus, or freedmen's cap, surrounded by two daggers. Underneath are the words EID MAR, short for Eidibus Martiis, or "On the Ides of March". Obviously, the daggers refer to the actual killing of Caesar. The pileus is interesting because of its deep ties to freedom in the minds of the Romans. As part of the ceremony upon the freeing of a slave, the former slave's hair was shaved and a pileus was placed upon their head. Thus it had a deep association with gaining liberty, one only reinforced by the fact that it was a symbol of the goddess Liberty herself. One source even claims that the assassins "bore a [pileus] on the end of a spear as a symbol of freedom" as they left the Senate chambers crying to the world that they had slain a tyrant who aimed to make himself king (Appian, The Civil Wars, II.119). Brutus' inclusion of the pileus on the coin clearly aims to further cement the connection between the death of Caesar and freedom.

The part that I personally find coolest, however, lies with the inscription. As noted above, "eid mar" is short for "eidibus martiis". This is the ablative form of the Ides of March (the ablative case in Latin is used for, among other things, indicating when something occurred ["ablative of time when"]). However, what's interesting about it is that eidibus is the archaic spelling. The contemporary way to spell it would have been idibus martiis, shortened to ID MAR, with the exact same meaning. Brutus' use of the archaic form hearkens back to the days of old, attempting to connect the killing of Caesar with a return to the "good old days" of the Roman Republic.

evidently this didn't work out so well for Brutus, but it's a fascinating coin.

[sforzesco]

lucullus: you know what. this doesn't concern me.

After this [Crassus] collected sailing vessels, crossed into Africa, and joined Metellus Pius, an illustrious man, who had got together a considerable army. However, he remained there no long time, but after dissension with Metellus set out and joined Sulla.

-Plutarch, Crassus

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[stcantarella]

still cant believe he's gone this year will be our 2102nd new year's without sulla :(

[catoswound]

hi my name is lucius cornelius sulla felix epaphroditos and i have long beautiful (that's how i got my name) reddish-golden hair and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me i look like the son of venus (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!). im not actually related to venus though but i wish i was coz shes a major fucking hottie. i have pale white skin with red spots all over. i love hanging out with the rabble even though im a patrician. for example today i was hanging out at the theatre with my stepmother and my lover nicopolis. when the play ended i walked outside on the road to go back to my (stepmother's) rental at our insula. it was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which i was very happy about because otherwise i would burn up. i met my other lover metrobius who acted in the play and kissed him. marcia the wife of gaius julius stared at me. i put up my middle finger at her.

[xasha777]

In the dimly lit bar aboard the starship Odyssey, Amber sat alone at the counter, her vivid red dress a striking contrast against the dark, metallic interior. The ship's engines hummed softly, a constant reminder of the endless journey through the cosmos. Amber's golden hair cascaded over her shoulders, catching the warm light from the antique lamps that hung above the bar. She had the look of someone who had seen too much, her eyes reflecting the mysteries of the universe.

Amber was a time-traveler, an agent of the Temporal Guard, tasked with preserving the integrity of the timeline. Her mission was to prevent anomalies that could alter the course of history. Tonight, however, her mission was personal. She was here to meet someone whose very existence was an anomaly.

From the shadows at the back of the bar, a figure emerged. Tall and imposing, he moved with a confidence that spoke of power and command. His piercing eyes locked onto Amber as he approached. He wore the traditional garb of a Roman general, but his presence seemed to distort reality, as if he didn't quite belong in this time and place.

"Amber," he greeted her, his voice a deep, resonant echo. "It has been a long time."

"Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix," Amber replied, her voice steady despite the turmoil within her. "Or should I say, the shadow of Sulla. You've been a difficult man to find."

Sulla smiled, a cold, calculating smile. "I am not the man you think I am. The universe is vast, and the boundaries of time are not as rigid as you believe."

Amber's heart raced. Sulla was a historical figure, a Roman general and dictator known for his ruthlessness. But this Sulla was different. He had been plucked from his own time by an unknown force, his essence split into multiple realities. He was now a rogue anomaly, his actions threatening to unravel the fabric of history.

"I need you to come with me," Amber said, standing her ground. "Your presence here is causing disturbances in the timeline. We need to restore balance."

Sulla laughed, a sound that sent chills down her spine. "Balance? You speak of balance while your Temporal Guard meddles with the natural order of things? I have seen the truth, Amber. Time is not a river but an ocean, and I intend to sail it freely."

Amber's mind raced as she considered her options. She had been trained for this, prepared to deal with anomalies, but Sulla was unlike any she had encountered before. He had knowledge and power beyond her understanding, and he was determined to reshape history to his own design.

As the tension between them grew, the bar's patrons seemed oblivious to the confrontation. The universe outside continued its endless march, stars and planets drifting in the vast expanse. Amber knew she had to act quickly.

"You leave me no choice," she said, reaching for the device at her waist. It was a temporal stabilizer, designed to neutralize anomalies and restore them to their proper place in time. But Sulla was faster. With a swift motion, he disarmed her, the device clattering to the floor.

"You underestimate me, Amber," he said, his voice low and menacing. "I have seen the future, and I will shape it as I see fit."

Before she could react, Sulla placed his hand on her shoulder. In an instant, the world around them dissolved into a swirl of colors and light. Amber felt herself being pulled through time, her senses overwhelmed by the sheer force of the transition.

When the world came back into focus, they were standing in ancient Rome. The bustling streets, the grandeur of the architecture, the smell of the markets – it was all too real. Sulla stood beside her, a triumphant gleam in his eyes.

"Welcome to my world," he said. "Here, I am in control."

Amber knew she had to find a way to stop him, to return him to his proper place in history. But for now, she was trapped in his reality, a prisoner of time.

As she looked around, searching for a way out, Amber realized that her mission was far from over. The fate of the timeline rested on her shoulders, and she would do whatever it took to restore balance. Even if it meant facing the wrath of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the man who defied time itself.

[rainydayscore]

happy pride to Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and nobody else

"Sulla spent the rest of his life in countryside villa with his wife"

alright

"and his male lover"

good for him!

[marcusagrippa]

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