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The Collapse of the Roman Republic

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The Collapse of the Roman Republic

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Gov’t in the Roman Republic

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What caused the Roman Republic to fall?

Why is this significant?

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I. The Punic Wars

• When?

• Where?

• Who?

• What?

• Why?

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See map in Noble p. 156

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• First Punic War (264-241)• Begins over Sicily; imitatio and corvus

• Second Punic War (218-201)• Hannibal’s march; Fabian strategy; Scipio

Africanus attacks at Zama

• Third Punic War (149-146)• Carthago delenda est (Cato)

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First Punic War

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Second Punic War

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Hannibal’s March

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Third Punic War (149-146 BC)

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• The main spurt of Roman expansion occurred between 264 and 133 B.C., when most of the Mediterranean fell to Rome, followed by the conquest of Gaul and the eastern Mediterranean by 44 B.C.

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Roman Expansion Under the Empire

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II. Tiberius & Gaius Gracchus(died 133, 122 BC)

• “But the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy nothing but the air and light; without house or home they wander about with their wives and children. . . . [T]hey fight and die to protect the wealth and luxury of others; they are styled masters of the world, and have not a clod of earth they can call their own.”

• Reformist Tribunes

• Land reform, debt relief, new colonies, etc.

• Murdered by Senators

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III. The Generals Control Rome

• Marius

• Sulla

• Julius Caesar

• [Octavian (Augustus)]

• See Noble, pp. 160-166

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Marius, “The First Man in Rome”

• Equestrian popularis• Military success• Repeated consulships

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Giovanni Tiepolo, The Triumph of Marius

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Sulla

• Patrician optimas• Political contradiction

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Julius Caesar

• See Noble, pp. 163-166

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From Republic to Empire: Julius Caesar & Augustus

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Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)

• General, dictator, orator, historian, reformer. . . • “the sole creative genius ever produced by

Rome”• As famous in death as in life. . .

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Caesar’s career

• First Triumvirate (60-53 BC)

• Pompey, Caesar, Crassus

• Military victories in Gaul (60-53)

• Commentaries on Gallic War

• Crossing the Rubicon (49)

• Civil War (49-45)• Dictator in Rome (45-44)• Assassinated

• Ides of March, “et tu, Bruti?”

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Map of Julius Caesar’s career

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Caesar’s accomplishments

• Expanded Roman citizenship to provinces

• Expanded Senate• Founded colonies for

soldiers • Public building

program in Rome• Julian calendar

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Caesar in popular culture

• “Veni, vidi, vici”• Shakespeare’s play• Caesarian birth• Caesar/Kaiser/Tsar• Caesar salad• Little Caesar’s pizza