44 - Sulla 1: The Lucky
Cost of Glory
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'Sulla', a Roman Praetor
With optimate backing, sulla gets elected pretor finally in 93 b c. One of the few things that is recorded about salla's tenure as urban praetor is his spectacular sponsorship and financial underwriting of a gigantic party. It was an annual rligious festival called the apolline games, the lodi apollonares. The games were actually founded more than a century earlier by an ancestor of his,. during the perilous years of the war with hannibal. So he has his friend king bocus send a hundred wild beasts from numidia, elephants, lions, ostriches, deer, and a team of numidian hunters to shoot net, chop and
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