Lucullus a life - Keaveney, Arthur (Routledge, 1992)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Lucius Licinius Lucullus and the Luculli; Master and pupil; The politic man; The consulship; Confronting the king: the war with Mithridates; Confronting the king: the war with Tigranes; The life of a sponge?; 'retired Leisure that in trim gardens takes his pleasure'; Lucius Licinius Lucullus and his age; Asia 81 79; When did the Third Mithridatic War begin?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
The first English biography on one of Rome's greatest soldiers, traditionally considered a degenerate. It offers a thoroughly revisionist account of Lucullus as a soldier, politician and aesthete, dispelling many wild fictions about him