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How a five-century republic gave way to one-man rule.
The Fall of the Roman Republic
From the institutions that balanced power in Rome to the private armies and civil wars that broke them. A six-episode narrative of the century that turned a republic into an empire.
How this series is made. Planned by Edusodes editors. Episode 1 is written by our editors; the remaining episodes are produced with AI to the same editorial structure when you reach them.
Consuls, the Senate, the assemblies and the tribunes: a system designed so no one could rule alone.
Two reforming brothers, a crisis of land and soldiers, and the first political killings in Rome.
How army reforms tied soldiers to their generals, and what Sulla did with that loyalty.
Three men, one informal alliance, and a Republic increasingly governed outside its institutions.
Civil war, Caesar's dictatorship, and the assassination meant to save the Republic.
The finale: how Augustus ended the civil wars and kept the Republic's forms while ending its substance.
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