Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic
"...the author does an admirable job of showing just how complicated and interconnected all the great patrician families were and how their jealousies and rivalries ultimately led to their undoing and the end of the great Roman Republic." — New York Journal of Books

The political process that culminated in the transition from Republic to Empire in ancient Rome began with the military reform of Caius Marius in the last decades of the 2nd century BC. Following the Civil War and Sulla’s dictatorship, it developed further with the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, and two further civil wars. These wars, which saw Caesar pitted against Pompey, and Octavian fighting Anthony, ended in 27 BC with the rise to power of Octavian, the adoptive son of Caesar. Before Augustus outlines a summary of the last years of the Roman Republic, weaving together the military, political, and social aspects. Scholar Natale Barca sets the protagonists within the complex societal and political system that they operated, analyzing their actions, and the epic battles that ensued.
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Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic
"...the author does an admirable job of showing just how complicated and interconnected all the great patrician families were and how their jealousies and rivalries ultimately led to their undoing and the end of the great Roman Republic." — New York Journal of Books

The political process that culminated in the transition from Republic to Empire in ancient Rome began with the military reform of Caius Marius in the last decades of the 2nd century BC. Following the Civil War and Sulla’s dictatorship, it developed further with the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, and two further civil wars. These wars, which saw Caesar pitted against Pompey, and Octavian fighting Anthony, ended in 27 BC with the rise to power of Octavian, the adoptive son of Caesar. Before Augustus outlines a summary of the last years of the Roman Republic, weaving together the military, political, and social aspects. Scholar Natale Barca sets the protagonists within the complex societal and political system that they operated, analyzing their actions, and the epic battles that ensued.
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Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic

Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic

by Natale Barca
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic

Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic

by Natale Barca

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"...the author does an admirable job of showing just how complicated and interconnected all the great patrician families were and how their jealousies and rivalries ultimately led to their undoing and the end of the great Roman Republic." — New York Journal of Books

The political process that culminated in the transition from Republic to Empire in ancient Rome began with the military reform of Caius Marius in the last decades of the 2nd century BC. Following the Civil War and Sulla’s dictatorship, it developed further with the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, and two further civil wars. These wars, which saw Caesar pitted against Pompey, and Octavian fighting Anthony, ended in 27 BC with the rise to power of Octavian, the adoptive son of Caesar. Before Augustus outlines a summary of the last years of the Roman Republic, weaving together the military, political, and social aspects. Scholar Natale Barca sets the protagonists within the complex societal and political system that they operated, analyzing their actions, and the epic battles that ensued.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781636242330
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Publication date: 10/01/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Natale Barca is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has also been a visiting scholar researcher at the University of California, Berkely, CA, and an academic visitor at the University of London’s Institute of Classical Studies. As well as being a member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (Roman Society), London, he is the author of fifteen monographs, many focused on the political and military history of Late Republican Rome.

Table of Contents

Preface

I. Caesar
II. Friends and enemies
III. Caesar favors a rapprochement between Crassus and Pompey
IV. The Triumviral Pact
V. The Julian Laws of 59
VI. Cicero
VII. Dark clouds gather
VIII. Clodius the tribune I
X. Cato is removed from Rome
X. A three-step strategy
XI. The Gallic War explodes
XII. Gang warfare
XIII. The exile’s return
XIV. The Lucca Agreement
XV. The military intervention in Egypt
XVI. The suppression of the uprising in Armorica and the conquest of the South-West
XVII. The First landing in Britannia
XVIII. A bridge over the Rhine
XIX. The second landing in Britannia
XX. A crisis explodes on the banks of the Rhine
XXI. An excellent murder
XXII. Caesar enters into friction with the Senate
XXIII. The situation turns on itself
XXIV. Crossing the Rubicon
XXV. The outbreak of the Civil War
XXVI. Pharsalus
XXVII. The Alexandrian War
XXVIII. A gruesome suicide
XXIX. Munda: The last battle
XXX. An ephebe on the victor’s chariot
XXXI. More than a dictator for life, almost a king
XXXII. Cleopatra in Rome
XXXIII. Twenty-three stabs
XXXIV. One day in March in Apollonia
XXXV. The Second Triumvirate
XXXVI. Philippi
XXXVII. New theaters of war
XXXVIII. Octavian, the winner Epilogue. Octavian becomes the princeps, the augustus

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