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@mattanderson9587 Says:
Read Mike Duncan's book for a more accurate account.
@sreeharia9974 Says:
My first introduction to Sulla was from the book, Emperor: Gates of the Rome. From what I read it's a fictional history(that is there are real people and real stuff, but it is changed for a better story telling) and in that this man was an absolute MACHINE. He did not do a SINGLE thing extra, every single thing he did and spoke had some sort of meaning or goal, he was the epitome of efficiency. And the aura this man exudes was crazy, I got literal chills whenever he came up in the story. Glad to see that he more or less do stay up in his aura in real life too
@SullaEversor Says:
Slander I say
@alextomasik4993 Says:
Love having a bald man telling me how to keep my hair
@ClayT2424 Says:
It’s unfortunate but if Caesar had proscribed people instead of showing clemency he might have lived to go on his Parthian Campaign.
@DavidCaesar-h9f Says:
Intelligent and Articulate, very enjoyable ❤😊
@yojohnyyo Says:
I love you
@michaelbrogan7537 Says:
Drink every time you hear, "march on Rome!"😅😅
@JoelJames2 Says:
After hearing Sulla brought up so much by Historia Civilis, I needed to know more about him, especially his fall.
I didn’t expect his “fall” to be him retiring and going home.
@woodcutlegend Says:
Sulla did what he had to do.
@Cagliostro81 Says:
No better friend. No worse enemy.
@jamestoner3900 Says:
He was mentioned in the Spartacus TV Series, Sean Bean would have been a cool casting
@bengerber735 Says:
That's not why the Jugurthine War happened - Numidia was an ally of Rome during the Punic Wars. It was a dispute over succession. Where on earth did you get your info for that??
@noahlogue Says:
Ah. A classic Simon video.
@prplhze2000 Says:
My favorite Roman.
@reneszeywerth8352 Says:
"Because they had supported Hannibal during the Punic wars" - sorry, but for me that's a bit of a WTF moment. The Second Punic war was almost a century earlier and Numidia ended up supporting Rome in the end and playing a crucial part in Hannibal's defeat.
@BuckPalanger Says:
Holy crap is this monstrously inaccurate. Did you major in beer and broad at College?
@Àgauche1 Says:
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@bobbystclaire Says:
Fun fact Rome had 85 dictators, the first was s u l l a and the last one was Caesar and that's in a period of 40 years😮
@CampaignandCartridge Says:
It was rumoured that Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) was going to be a victim of Sulla's purges but for some reason this didnt happen. He was only aged about 12 at the time.
@davetremaine9688 Says:
2:48 - 3:02 So the government official was making more money than they should have given their fixed/public known income? And the answer was they lost their job and their family lost a lot of their wealth and power which was likely "earned" off the backs of the people? Sounds like we gotta go back to Sulla's way of doing things.
@georgebrett1738 Says:
Came for Rome, and was told I’d be bald by I’m 35. What a rollercoaster.
@alexanderschmidt3935 Says:
Interesting keeps picked to sponsor a fellow bald man
@paulc6471 Says:
5:32 Rome want the love and let love kind of place?!
@antoniofarinaccio541 Says:
Your accent is sickening, colorfully British often sitting on your voice makes your continues sentences heavy and tiresome to follow. Given the interesting and importance of the subject and object of interest, find time to breath in between sentences.
@sydhenderson6753 Says:
Debates on Marius vs. Sulla tend to resemble those on whether Hitler or Stalin was the nicer person. They were equally repulsive.
@thatguy7072 Says:
I love this channel
@michaeltuite5510 Says:
Was this the first Roman civil war? I am sure you did your research, but its nagging me that there might have been prior internal conflicts.
@Tinil0 Says:
This is such a weirdly pro-Sulla take. Sulla was basically singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of the Republic and was a terrible person from the start.
@blankface5052 Says:
Lol to say Rome declared war on numidia bc they fought for Carthage is a gross oversimplification.
@saltycreole2673 Says:
I admire General Sulla. He staved off the populist (read leftist) wave for 40 years using shall we say, finallity and deadly vigor. We could use his dreaded proscription lists in Washington right now.
@Jauhl1 Says:
Saying that the Cornelia, the most illustriousness Roman gens ever, didn't carry much weight in Sulla's time is hilariously wrong. It was the Sulla stirpes that had fallen on hard times. Other branches flourished as Cornelii Cossi, Cornelii Scipiones, Cornelii Lentuli,Cornelii Dolabellae Cornelii Merulae, Cornelii Sisennae, Cornelii Cinnae commonly held political magistrates in Sulla's time. Cornelia Cinna, Ceasar's first father in law and twice consul, was even the main leader of the Marian faction in the civil war against Sulla.
@nickfeder Says:
Wild that this happened almost 2000 years ago and yet this week we have similar news coming out of russia. oh well. read, kids! it helps.
@Mithradates65 Says:
Fun fact: During the First Mithridatic War, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was Badly outnumbered in two major battles, which Sulla had Won through Military Genius!!
@davidramos4707 Says:
Nice video, bad subtitles
@omarivanmayorgaalvarado860 Says:
I am not that sure about sulla's importance to history because what he did would have happened sooner or later despite marching on rome whether him or another general/politician and that is the only reason of his importance in history. Opposite to this, gaius marius reformed the legions, defeated the germans which had far more importance and consequences because if he hadn't defeated the germans, they would've marched on rome and put and end to it; also if he hadn't reformed the legions, the legions may have stucked in the hastati, princeps and triaris forever. My point is that you can exchange sulla for any decent general or even marius and you have the same result of marching on rome, while you cannot do that with marius because sulla was not old or important enough to lead the legions against the germans nor make the military reforms rome needed to defeat them and since there was no other man good or bold enough to do what marius did during that crisis. You cannot argue against marius importance, but I would argue against sulla's importance and grant that the only significant deed he made was to appoint lucullus, pompey, crassus as his proteges, pupils and many others Whom he favored after his victory
@augustopinochet1670 Says:
He was my biggest inspiration.
@briandoss9232 Says:
Huh. A Roman who died of natural causes. Shocking.
@foreverraining1522 Says:
You talk too fast... it's hard to follow you. Slow down and give people time to appreciate each point of fact before rambling off to the next one. But I suppose with 2M subscribers...you're just going to keep rambling on.
@bradbrandon2506 Says:
I'm starting to realize just how complex Roman history really is....
@thelazygamingtiger8443 Says:
Hearing about the Marius reforms: Wow, this Marius guy seems pretty cool.
Watching this video: OH. Well then.
@wasfureinbua Says:
sheesh
@Izixster Says:
The Jugurtha war wasn't because they had helped Hannibal. In fact they switched alliance and helped Rome in the end and were 'friends' of Rome.
Your video's are really good but i think this was a mistake. and actually going into detail of the Jugurtha war would've been important here as it gives a picture of the moral decline of Rome, and also is where Sulla made his name so to speak, by negotiating the transfer of Jugurtha with Bochus. The war was because of Jugurtha's actions (killing Micipsa's sons Hiempsel first, then later Adherbal after he had asked Rome for help) and constant bribery of Roman legates. Sallust's history on this affair is extremely good.
They also didn't ALL come back defeated and humiliated, Metellus was there before Marius (well, Marius was also there but Metellus was in charge until Marius was elected consul, after Metellus granted him leave back to Rome due to Marius causing Metellus problems until he let him go) and Marius adopted largely the same strategies at Metellus because they were working. Metellus returned to Rome a hero and received tons of fanfare, definitely not humiliated, although he was pretty furious at Marius for taking his command.
Having said that overall excellent video, please do one on Cicero!
@akariito4579 Says:
It's not GUS it's Gaius ga-i-us.
@arianjalilian Says:
Julius Caesar tried to be like him but he failed
@Mithradates65 Says:
GLORY TO THE ROMAN REPUBLIC!! Caesar shouldn't be called a Roman, he was a Traitor who didn't know what loyalty was! Sulla at least respected the Republic, and even WILLINGLY Chose to step down!!
@npalmi88 Says:
“Over a hundred years PRIAAAHHHH”
@ChelseaParkhouse Says:
I don't think the Romans new the word loyalty back then haha he betrayed him switch sides at which point he then went on a mutiny to betray his betray...betray
@PtolemyCeasar Says:
Sulla for all his faults was a great man, unlike the mental defectives we have today.
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