The Fall of the Roman Republic, Part 1: The Late Roman Republic in Theory and Practice
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - En podcast av Richard Abels
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Send us a textFor the fiftieth (!) episode of this podcast, I'm taking a few centuries detour from the Middle Ages to talk about the fall of the Roman Republic. In this episode, the first of a two part series, my cohost Dr. Jenny Paxton and I talk about the political and cultural institutions of the Roman Republic in the late second and first centuries B.C.E.*. We explain how and why a republic designed to govern an Italian city-state fell victim to its own success as Rome rose to empir...
