True! A good look into this further is Mike Duncan's The Storm before the Storm that leads into the Sulla era: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Ro

True! A good look into this further is Mike Duncan's The Storm before the Storm that leads into the Sulla era: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215 https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic... Duncan's The History of Rome podcast is very good overall and very much worth a listen.