Roman History III

Service Description

Our course picks up after 146 BCE, when the Roman Republic has very few formidable enemies, and expansion, with subsequent flow of wealth into Roman society, causes great stresses on the Roman Republican institutions. We start dramatically with the political murder of the Gracchi, the rise of the first Dynasts, Marius and Sulla, the professionalization of the Roman army, the rise of Caesar and the oratory of Cicero. We conclude this century of bloody Roman civil war with the establishment of the early Empire under Augustus, the establishment of the Principate in 27 BCE.