Sulla: The First Man to Break Rome

Podcast: The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show · Jeremy Ryan Slate

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

Caesar didn't break Rome. 50 years before Caesar ever mattered, Sulla did — and he did it while trying to save the Republic. Rome spent 400 years building constraints to stop a king. Two consuls, not one. One-year terms. Ten tribunes with veto power. No army inside the sacred boundary of the city. No office without a term limit. It worked because everyone agreed to lose — you lost an election, you waited your turn. Sulla broke every one of those constraints in five years. Legions camped inside the pomerium where no army had...