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Personal intrigue, treachery, and occasional moral virtue vie in ancient Rome -- undisputed master of the world, but fatally unable to control its own citizens or army. In the first century BC, Rome was the undisputed ruler of a vast empire. Yet, at the heart of the Roman Republic was a fatal flaw: a dangerous hostility between the aristocracy and the plebians, and each regarded themselves as the foundation of Rome's military power. Turning from their foreign enemies, Romans would soon be fighting Romans. In a fast-paced narrative peopled with a memorable cast of heroes and villains, Swords Against the Senate describes the first three decades of the century-long civil war that transformed Rome from a republic to an imperial autocracy, from the Rome of citizen leaders to the Rome of decadent emperor thugs. It relates how the republic came apart amid military and political turmoil and how Gaius Marius, the "people's general," first rose to despotic power and then fell to the brutal dictator Sulla in a clash between opposing Roman armies. The citizen army, once invincible against foreign antagonists, became a tool for contending aristocrats in Rome's bloody civil war. - Back cover.
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Swords Against the Senate: The Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic
November 11, 2003, Da Capo
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0306812797 9780306812798
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"IN THE SPRING OF 137 B.C. A MOST UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARY passed north through Etruria and along the Italian coast on his way to a war in Spain: Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, twenty-six, a nobleman of one of the best families in Rome, his father a successful general and statesman, both consul and censor."
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