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Any literate adult with a passing knowledge of Roman Republican history will find this book a relatively easy read and quite enlightening. Any specialist in Roman Republican history will find this work a concise, accurate, and extremely valuable synthesis of scholarly opinion on the fall of the Roman Republic that is fully informed by most all works on the topic from Syme to the present. In my opinion, this book stands as the current state of the art on its subject. While my reading on the topic is not encyclopedic, I believe it is extensive enough for me to render that judgement. The author, David Shotter, is a prolific writer and respected historian of Rome both imperial and republican. What is striking here is the degree to which this writer has been able to detach himself from his present and paint an objective assessment of the period from the Gracchi to the emergent principate of Augustus. Any reader in this area will know that this has been a problem for writers on topics Roman from Edward Gibbon to Tom Holland. As the previous reviewer has pointed out, Shotter finds the seeds of the downfall of the Republic in the growth of the Roman Empire. With the terms of procons

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Author

David Colin Arthur Shotter

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134364381

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities

Rating

3.52 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14