Lucius Cornelius Silla was born in 138 BC to an important but not rich Roman patrician family. He received a good education, as Sallust, a reliable impartial Roman plebeian historian and politician, suggests, "...and spoke both Roman and Greek fluently" (Sallust, 43 AD Histories), which was a sign of high education in Rome ( Cavazzi, F. 2014). Sulla was a general and lieutenant in the Roman army, he was twice elected consul before becoming dictator in 81 BC. His military background may have a strong influence on how Sulla ruled and how his rule led to the fall of the Republic Roman (Plutarch, 79 BC Life of Sulla). According to Franco Cavazzi, a current unprejudiced and accredited Roman historian, Sulla's first great achievement was to become Marius' lieutenant. Marius was neither Roman nor patrician, but he still managed to be elected 7 times, led the army to many victories and was well recognized for these. (Gill, NS 2014) (Cavazzi, F. 2002) It was during Sulla's service under Marius' military command that many of Sulla's character traits were cultivated that contributed to the way he governed. His character traits are listed in three main accounts by authors AJ Koutsoukis, Erik Hildinger, who are both current impartial writers of historical non-fiction, and Plutarch. Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, best known for his work Parallel Lives, in which he focuses on all the rulers who contributed to the Roman Republic. Plutarch is very balanced and focuses on the influence of character and the moral lessons that can be learned from these emperors, good or bad. These three authors claim the same traits but share contradictory information about the character of Su...... middle of paper ......easily restore the power of the Senate, however the quality of power is questionable (Cavazzi, F. 2014 ). His reforms had no lasting impact on Rome, as soon as he retired and died, Rome was in its current state of political violence and chaos. All his work was to be noted, it failed to have a lasting impact on Rome beyond a deadly precedent to follow. Thus Sulla's reforms contributed to the fall of the Roman Republic as he was incapable of making permanent changes in the Republic and provided an extremely deadly precedent to follow. University of Utah history professor Dr. Larry Ping explains, "His reforms attempted to put Roman politics in a straightjacket, but he could not undo the effect of his own example, a general who used 'army of the republic to march on Rome, and overthrow the government in the name of reforms' (Ping, 2011. On the).