(September 19, 2015 at 7:28 pm)houseofcantor Wrote:(May 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: Unlike jesus.....Bismarck knew how to make a prediction.
Speaking of prognostication, what was Sulla's motivation in releasing Julius Caesar from the flaminate?
Agree about Bismarck.
Caesar was 16 when the civil wars broke out between Cornelius Sulla and his uncle Marius. True, he was paterfamilias because his father, also named Gaius Julius, had died when Caesar was 15 but looking at it from Sulla's p-o-v he might have been too insignificant at the time to bother with and his connection to Marius was through his aunt who had married Marius. The comment of Plutarch - writing much later - that Sulla saw "many Mariuses" in Caesar sounds like later Julio-Claudian horseshit.
Then again, maybe Sulla was just having a bad day. Some of the decisions he made were baffling.
