Sulla´s dynasty

What if Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix cemented his dictatorship, submitting and surpressing the Senate even more and transform the Republic into a dynastic system with his heirs suceeding him. Maybe Faustus Sulla suceeds him and his daughter Fausta is married to one of his allies, maybe Pompeijus ?
 
What if Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix cemented his dictatorship, submitting and surpressing the Senate even more and transform the Republic into a dynastic system with his heirs suceeding him. Maybe Faustus Sulla suceeds him and his daughter Fausta is married to one of his allies, maybe Pompeijus ?

Impossible, next question. :p

But really, no, you would need the republic to dissolve, Rome to fall and the entire mediterranean civilization to fall into the depths of ruin to have the correct and exponentially high amount of chaos and improbability to have anything Sulla does to last as a practice for the Romans in any capacity, let alone for his family.

You're trying to make a well-fed man sustain himself on vinegar, no Roman will want anything to do with Sulla during his life if they can help it and that shows in OTL, when Sulla was treated as a past shame endured by the entire Republic.
 
Fausta and Faustus are much too young to hold a significant legacy (and indeed Faustus Sulla never played a very prominent role), which probably was a bonus to Sulla as he never had a clear heir that would inherit all of his political power while Dictator (he had supporters of varied loyalty like Lucullus, Pompeius, Metellus Pius, Vatia and so on, but considering how the 70's developed they don't count for this excercise).

I don't think the scenario plausible given the attitudes held towards Sulla and the fact that he never had that much of an actual powerbase (his veterans were ailing, and Sulla was never the predetermined champion of the Optimates, it looks more like an alliance of convenience), but if a POD is needed for Sulla to have a strong somewhat adult heir you could have his son Lucius Cornelius Sulla (his mother being "Ilia" or a Julia Caesaris) living to adult age. Assuming his son to have been born between 110 and 100 BC, he would be between 20 and 30 by Sulla's death, somewhat like Marius the Younger.

But of course, his survival could also affect Sulla's career in a significant way, given how unlikely his rise to power and prominence was.
 
Problem is: Sulla was a republican, and though you can consider him as crual, but his main wish was to restore the aristocratic republic and not to gain permanent personal, maybe even dynastic power. Furthermore, IIRC, he had no son but only a daughter.
 
That's the point. And I Will add that, if one wanted to found a dynastic monarchy, one needs to be a popularis, not an optimate.

Because the aristocracy will reluctanctly accept monarchical power only if It is forced to by an other political force.

You may have noticed that all the tyrants in the antic world were on the "popularis" stance. This was true from Kleisthenes of Sycione to Pisistrates of Athens, the tyrants of Syracuse, Caesar and Augustus, ... Etc.
 
Problem is: Sulla was a republican, and though you can consider him as crual, but his main wish was to restore the aristocratic republic and not to gain permanent personal, maybe even dynastic power. Furthermore, IIRC, he had no son but only a daughter.

He had not an adult son at the time of his death but OTL he had two sons and three daughters:

From his first wife (called "Ilia" but almost surely a Julia Caesaris, cousin of Marius' wife and Caesar's father) (called "Ilia" but almost surely a Julia Caesaris, cousin of Marius' wife and Caesar's father):

1)Cornelia Sulla wife first of Quintus Pompeius Rufus the Younger (son of Sulla's consular colleague Quintus Pompeius Rufus) and after his death of Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus. She had a son and a daughter (Pompeia Sulla, Casear's second wife) from her first husband
2)Lucius Cornelius Sulla (the Younger) who died younghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamercus_Aemilius_Lepidus_Livianus

from his fourth wife (Caecilia Metella Dalmatica, widow of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus):
3) Faustus Cornelia Sulla, son-in-law of Pompeius Magnus (first husband of Pompeia and father of at least a son and a daughter)
4) Fausta Cornelia Sulla, twin of Faustus, wife of Gaius Memmius and Titus Annius Milo

from his fifth wife (Valeria Messalla):
5) Cornelia Postuma (born after Sulla's death and likely dead young)
 
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