Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement

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Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement

By Ian Worthington

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, No. 135 (1992)

Introduction: Sulla’s retirement into private life in 79 BC has provoked numerous explanations, including illness, apathy towards Rome’s... [continue reading]

Posted by historyoftheancientworld.com on February 12, 2012, 20:33.

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