Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability.
He charts the Republic\'s collapse into further civil wars and the new system that rose from the ashes..
Gareth Sampson analyses the various reforming politicians, their policies and opponents and the violence and bloodshed that resulted.
In its place was the Principate, a new Republic founded on the promise of peace and stability at home and end to the decades of bloodshed.
Ultimately this led to the Republic\'s collapse into a second and third civil war and the end of the old Republican system.
In the search for stability, the Roman system produced a series of military dynasts; men such as Pompey, Crassus and Caesar, who strove to bring stability to Rome.
Men such as Catiline and Clodius took up the mantle of Reform which saw Rome paralyzed with domestic conflict and ultimately bloodshed and murder.
Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political Reform being met with violence and bloodshed, had not been resolved and once again resumed.
Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability
