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.
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.
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