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Rome's Revolution - Death of the Republic & Birth of the Empire (Hardcover)
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Rome's Revolution - Death of the Republic & Birth of the Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
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Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the
fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning
points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into
civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the past
about the unsustainability of empires; political scientists have
labeled it a parable about militarism, populism, moral decay, or
the inevitable corruption of political systems. Yet the familiar
story of the Roman Republic's downfall continues to be the story of
its elites. What if we started thinking about Roman politics not
from the perspectives of Caesar and Cicero, but from the point of
view of the soldier, the peasant, or the pauper? In an original
account of what he calls Rome's revolution, Richard Alston
reinscribes these humble protagonists into their tumultuous era.
They, like the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were
political agents, negotiating their positions in the context of a
"failed state." Rome's Revolution blends riveting historical
narrative with socio-economic analysis, restoring a rich context to
the cataclysmic violence of the period. In addition to chronicling
the drama of aristocratic rivalries, the book digs beneath the high
politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony and Octavian to examine the
problems of making a living in first-century BC Italy. Portraying
the revolution as the crisis of a violent society-both among the
citizenry and among a ruling class whose legitimacy was
dwindling-Rome's Revolution provides new insight into the
motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and
slaughter their compatriots.
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