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description: I - The wars which elevate Rome to superpower status also sow the seed for the downfall of its political system. Money slaves ambition political stalemate and class warfare prove to be a toxic bloody mix.II - Disaster threatens the Republic but the cure might be worse than the disease. The Dan Carlin version of this story continues with ambition-addict Marius dominating the story and Plutarch dominating the sources.III - Romes political violence expands in intensity from riots and assassinations to outright war as the hyper-ambitious generals Marius and Sulla tear the Republic and its constitution apart vying for power and glory.IV - Sulla returns to Rome to show the Republic what REAL political violence looks like. Civil war and deadly partisan payback will pave the way for reforms pushed at sword point. Lots of heads will rollliterally.V - The last great generation of the Roman Republic emerges from the historical mists. The dynamic between Caesar Cato Cicero Crassus and Pompey forms the axis around which the rest of this tale revolves.VI - In a massive finish to the Dan Carlin version of the fall of the Roman Republic conspiracies civil wars beatniks of antiquity and a guy named Caesar figure prominently. Virtually everyone dies.
language: English
title: Death Throes of the Republic
publisher: None