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I am on the search for Sulla's Memoirs. As far as I understand, Plutarch used them heavily for his research for Sulla's life in Parallel Lives, and by what I have been able to find, they seem to exist, if only in scraps here and there. Does anyone know if there is a place to locate the memoirs, if they are at all available?
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You'll want Peter Hermann's Teubner Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae, vol. 1, which contains the extant fragments of Sulla's Commentarii from quotations by other authors.
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Yes, that's correct; there's no known manuscript of Sulla.
(by the way, welcome to RAT, Saul)
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On a related note.
Anyone who is interested in reading a well-written, well-researched biography of this ellusive man from a fair perspective that doesn't view him as (perhaps merely) blood-thirsty tyrant should read
-Keaveney, Arthur. Sulla: The Last Republican, 2nd ed. Routledge: London, 2004.
It's mostly based on Keaveney's thesis, which is actually a biography over Sulla. I highly recommend it.