Cost of Glory

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.Mass murderer or brilliant patriot?  Whatever your take on Sulla, it's worth analyzing the qualities that made him a joy to his friends, and a terror to his enemies.

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.How do you keep your team together in a civil conflict?  Can a country right itself by warring with itself?  What are the limits to which one man will go to punish his enemies?   In this episode, Sulla’s most famous, or rather infamous, acts as a leader.    —People—SullaPlutarchKing Pyrrhus CinnaMetellus PiusMarcus Licinius CrassusCarboGaius NorbanusLucius Cornelius Scipio (Asiaticus)SertoriusGnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)Gaius Marius (Jr.)DamasippusThe SamnitesTelesinusThe LucaniansLucius OfellaSextus Roscius (Amerinus)CiceroCatilineJulius CaesarThe GracchiMetellaMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC) —Places—ApolloniaEpirusAdriatic SeaItalyDalmatiaCampaniaMt TifataCapuaCapitoline HillPicenumPraeneste (Palestrina)RomeColline GateAntemnae Field of Mars (Campus Martius)Temple of BellonaCircus FlaminiusAmeriaCumae

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.How does a great commander handle being undermined by his government back home?  How should we treat opponents we defeat?  And how do we negotiate the best deal when our backs are against the wall and our counterparts know it? In this episode: Sulla goes to Greece, to war against Rome’s arch rival Mithridates of Pontus.  Can he hold out against a vastly superior enemy army?  And can he weather the escalating crisis in Rome?  --People--Sulla, The HeroPlutarch, The NarratorMarius, The ScoundrelSulpicius, The HenchmanCinna, The PoliticianMithridates, The King Aristion, the TyrantArchelaus, The FoeFlaccus, The ReplacementFimbria, The BackstabberApellicon, The Book CollectorAndronicus, The Editor   --Places--RomeAthensPiraeusEpidaurusOlympiaDelphiBoeotiaMt ParnassusChaeroneaThebesLivadeiaOrchomenusLake KopaisAsia (Minor)The DardanellesDardanusEuboeaHalae --Divinities--MaBellonaMinervaVenusAphroditeApolloAsclepiusTrophonius

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.How do we get Fortune on our side?  What are the qualities necessary for daring unthinkable, unspeakable acts? When is it justifiable to massacre your enemies?   Sulla: A man of contradictions.  Enjoyer of dramas and hedonistic pleasures; most successful general of his generation, and one of the greatest of all time.  Patriot and champion of the ancient constitution; the Roman responsible for more Roman deaths than perhaps any other man in history.   Was Sulla one who broke the Republic? In this episode learn the arts of:-Wisdom-charm-gift giving-deception People:Gaius MariusJugurthaKing BocchusThe Cimbri and TeutonesQuintus Lutatius CatulusThe MetelliAemilius ScaurusMithridates of PontusThe ParthiansQuintus Pompeius RufusManius Aquillius (cameo)Publius Sulpicius Rufus  Places:RomeNumidiaGaulCiliciaCappadociaArmeniaEuphrates RiverPersiaParthiaNola

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.A principle for building exercises to control your anxiety or fear.  Favorinus, a philosopher from the time of Plutarch, offers some deft observations about Socrates.

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.Plutarch offers insight on relating to people above your station

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.Plato gives some insight in how to undermine your enemies.

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.How to turn bad luck around.  SPOILER: it's not just more effort.Stories of Timotheus and Sulla

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.What happened after Lysander died?  What was his legacy?  What can we learn from his life?  

CoG in Greece - costofglory.com/retreat to apply.Lysander returns from his setbacks at Sparta with a revolutionary plan.  He consults the gods about the Spartan Kingship; and some of his own prophecies about Greek geopolitics come true.In this episode: How should protegés treat mentors?  How do you change a deeply conservative state?  And, as always, what is the cost, for an individual, for a state, of striving for supreme glory?Characters:Alexander Hamilton (cameo)LysanderTissaphernes, Satrap of LydiaThe PythiaAgesilausCyrus the YoungerKing PausaniasThrasyboulus of AthensPlaces:SpartaOracle of DelphiOracle of Dodona, in EpirusOracle of Zeus Ammon (Amun Ra), LibyaEphesusThebesHaliartus