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What If Rome's Greatest Leaders Were Also Its Most Dangerous?

What If Rome's Greatest Leaders Were Also Its Most Dangerous?

Par Rothwell, Selene

Publié par epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565203031
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Rome's Republic promised citizen participation and balanced power. Yet the very leaders celebrated for military genius and political reform—Julius Caesar, Pompey, Sulla—also dismantled the institutions meant to restrain them. How did generals become dictators? How did personal loyalty replace civic duty? And why did the Senate repeatedly fail to prevent its own obsolescence? This book traces Rome's constitutional crisis through the careers of its most charismatic figures, examining primary sources—speeches, letters, Senate debates—to reveal the mechanisms of institutional erosion. It follows the rise of populares vs. optimates factionalism, the weaponization of mob violence, the militarization of political competition, and the slow transformation of republican norms into imperial autocracy. From the Gracchi brothers' land reforms to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, from Cicero's desperate defense of the Republic to Augustus's careful construction of monarchy disguised as tradition, this is the story of how personal charisma, emergency powers, and civic complacency conspired to end 500 years of republican government. It asks: what does Rome's collapse reveal about the fragility of democratic institutions anywhere?

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