Talk:Lucius Cornelius Cinna

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Lovano's book[edit]

If anyone is interested in Cinna, Lovano's book is a must-read. There's a Google Books preview online (linked under Further Reading in the article), so you can decide whether it's worth laying hands on. I haven't had time to read it except in snatches, but Lovano's point seems to be that the ancient sources we depend on for Cinna tend to be pro-Sulla and pro-aristocratic; this is the anti-popularist bias that T.P. Wiseman has recently explored in Remembering the Roman People. It's a worthwhile book for putting the P back in SPQR. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:20, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite[edit]

This post is to inform the talk page that I overwrote the older version of this article (that diff) with a rewritten version largely based on Lovano (2002), Keaveney (2005), and Seager (1992) in CAH² 9. The reliance on Bennett in the older version of the article is not entirely great, per note in Bulst (1964).

Comments appreciated ; I'm sure that if there are quality portions in the original version, they could be moved over without much difficulty. I did a somewhat cursory review of the old article looking for well sourced material that would be wroth adding and did so where I thought it contributory. Ifly6 (talk) 17:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]