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Rubicon

Disciplines:
history

Summary

Tom Holland's narrative history of the fall of the Roman Republic — covering the century from the Gracchi to Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon.

Core Contribution

The best popular narrative of the late Republic in English: covering the Gracchi, Marius and Sulla, Spartacus, Cicero, Caesar, and Pompey. The Republic as a political system under existential stress: how mass politics, private military power, and personal ambition destroyed a constitutional order. Vivid characterization and narrative pace. Established Holland as the leading popular historian of the ancient world.

Historical Influences

Suetonius Plutarch

Intellectual Lineage

Classical History

Allied Works

Persian Fire Dynasty Dominion

Contemporaries & Peers

Persian Fire Dynasty Dominion

Minds Influenced

Popular Classical History

Intellectual Posterity

Roman History

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