Fortune's Favorites brings us through the time of the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla in Ancient Rome. Sulla returns from fighting Mithridates of Pontus in Asia and has defeated Cinna and Carbo in their attempts to take over the Roman republic, and backed by his loyal army, is determined to return the Republic to its patricianruled roots. To do this, Sulla instigates the infamous proscriptions; lists of men who are declared enemies of the state, or outlaw, are placed in public view, declaring that anyone who kills such a man will be given a reward. Money flows into the depleted Roman treasury from the sales of the huge estates and possessions of those who are proscribed. Sulla embarks on a program of radical and regressive reform of the Republic; among other things, he handpicks the consuls, requires the Senate to pass legislation he stipulates, and effectively...