A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J.
The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation, he lives in Carlsbad, California..
Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.
About the Author: Edward J.
In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
The death of Rome\'s Republic was not inevitable.
The stage was set for destructive civil wars--and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus.
As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets.
By the 130s BC, however, Rome\'s leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents.
For centuries, even as Rome grew Into the Mediterranean\'s premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise.
Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.
A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J
