SULLA , LUCIUS CORNELIUS

Additional reading F. Frlich in the Pauly-Wissowa Realencyclopdie, vol. 7, col. 15221566 (1900), a useful, detailed biographical article that explains Sulla's astonishing abdication; Hugh Last and R. Gardner, The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 9, ch. 6 (1932), a positive evaluation of Sulla's reforms and of his organizational capacities; Carolina Lanzani, Lucio Cornelio Silla dittatore (1936), an ample and accurate exposition of the events of the years 8278; Jerome Carcopino, Sylla, ou la monarchie manque, new ed. (1947), an explanation of Sulla's abdication as a result of his unsuccessful attempt to prevail as a monarchthis thesis has not had much of a following; Ernesto Valgiglio, Silla e la crisi repubblicana (1956), an examination of the decade 8879 of Cornelius Sulla, seen here as an aristocrat faithful to the republican institutions which he tried, unsuccessfully, to stabilize.