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"This volume gathers twelve studies on key aspects of the history of Rome and her empire between the end of the Hannibalic War (201 BCE) and the election of Tiberius Gracchus to the tribunate (134 BCE). Through this periodisation, which places the focus on what intervened between two major and well-studied historical turning points in Republican history, we aim to bring new light on the interplay between imperial expansion, political volatility, and intellectual developments, and to explore in detail the various levels on which historical change unfolded. There is no continuous ancient narrative for this period, even late or derivative, and this has shaped much of the historiographical discourse about it. Our working hypothesis is that through this prism we can both get a new sense of the depth and richness of the period and establish new connections among aspects of human agency and action that are usually considered in isolation from one another"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue: the triumph of the Roman Republic
• The beasts of Italy
• The stepchildren of Rome
• Daggers in the forum
• A city for sale
• The spoils of victory
• The golden earring
• Marius's mules
• The third founder of Rome
• Italia
• The ruins of Carthage
• The spiked boots
• Civil War
• Dictator for life.

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, Rome grew from an unremarkable Italian city-state to the dominant superpower of the Mediterranean world. Through it all, the Romans never allowed a single man to seize control of the state. Every year for four hundred years the annually elected consuls voluntarily handed power to their successors. Not once did a consul give in to the temptation to grab absolute power and refuse to let it go. It was a run of political self-denial unmatched in the history of the world. The disciplined Roman republicans then proceeded to explode out of Italy and conquer a world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings.But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome ruled. Bankrolled by mountains of imperial wealth and without a foreign enemy to keep them united, ambitious Roman leaders began to stray from the republican austerity of their ancestors. Almost as soon as they had conquered the Mediterranean, Rome would become engulfed in violent political conflicts and civil wars that would destroy the Republic less than a century later.The Storm Before the Storm tells the story of the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic--the story of the first generation that had to cope with the dangerous new political environment made possible by Rome's unrivaled domination over the known world. The tumultuous years from 133-80 BCE set the stage for the fall of the Republic.The Republic faced issues like rising economic inequality, increasing political polarization, the privatization of the military, endemic social and ethnic prejudice, rampant corruption, ongoing military quagmires, and the ruthless ambition and unwillingness of elites to do anything to reform the system in time to save it--a situation that draws many parallels to present-day America. These issues are among the reasons why the Roman Republic would fall. And as we all know, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What it Was To Be Roman
• Chapter 2: A Blueprint for Civil War? Sulla and the 80s BCE
• Chapter 3: The Up and Coming Generation Rome in the 70s BCE
• Chapter 4: Hopes for the Future: Rome in the 60s BCE
• Chapter 5: Rome in Crisis? The Catilinarian Conspiracy in 63 BCE
• Chapter 6: A 'First' Triumvirate? Rome in the late 50s BCE
• Chapter 7: Violence in Republican Rome: The Truth of the Early 50s BCE
• Chapter 8: Civil War: Caesar versus Cato
• Chapter 9: Caesar's Death and the Fall of the Republic.
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This is the story of the last century of the Roman Republic - why and how did the Republic succeed and why did it ultimately fail? Was the destruction of the Republic attributable to one man a?? Julius Caesar a?? or was he perhaps the most visionary of his colleagues in realising that the Rome of the past had changed? Are the actions of men like Brutus and Cassius in assassinating Caesar worthy of admiration, or were they the final gasp of a fallen world? Pamela Marin begins by examining the ideals underpinning the Roman Republic, and relates the legendary story of Cincinnatus. In the year 458 and again in 439 BCE, Cincinnatus was approached to assume the dictatorship in order to lead a military struggle against a rebellious tribe in central Italy. After resolving the threat he stepped down from the dictatorship after fifteen days. This almost immediate resignation was viewed as the ultimate example of civic duty, modesty, good leadership, and above all, service to the res publica. This near-mythic story of the small farmer leaving his crops to tend to the political crisis of the early Republic found resonance as the centuries passed, and Cincinnatus became the exemplar of Republican virtue. By the first century BCE, many were bemoaning the decline of integrity and Republican values: the Roman historian Sallust commented "in these degenerate days...who is there that does not vie with his ancestors in riches and extravagance rather than in uprightness and diligence?" In her illuminating book Pamela Marin anatomises the drama of the final days of the Roman Republic, untangles the shifting alliances and betrayals that led ultimately to the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BCE, and reveals the backdrop to the rise of Octavian, Romea??s first Emperor, Augustus.
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In the first century B. C. , Rome was master of the world but could not control its own citizens and its own army. After Rome defeated its age-old enemy, Carthage, it was the undisputed ruler of a vast empire. Yet, at the heart of the Roman Republic was a peculiar flaw: an uneradicable tension between the aristocracy and the plebians, and each regarded themselves as the foundation of Rome's military power. Swords Against the Senate relates how the republic began to come apart amid military and political turmoil-the smoldering anger of the common people, a petty war against a treacherous North African prince, an invasion by Germans and an Italian political uprising. In the crisis Gaius Marius, the "people's general, " rises to despotic power but is eventually replaced by the brutal dictator Sulla, who in turn spawns the man who would transform turmoil into imperial triumph, Julius Caesar. In this fast-paced, fact-filled work, personal intrigue, treachery, and occasional moral virtue vie for the reins of power. The Roman army, once invincible against foreign antagonists, becomes a tool for the powerful and government its foe. Erik Hildinger has written a fascinating, insightful work of history.
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