A History of the Roman World from 146 to 30 B.C. (1963) analyses the workings of the Roman constitution alongside looking at the events in Roman history from the time of the Gracchi to the death of Antony. It shows that the supremacy of the senate was based on a well-organised political machine, and that the economic, social and political changes which resulted from the conquest of the Mediterranean world weakened the senate’s control without providing a substitute, and so led to the fall of the Republic.
1. The Penalties of Empire 2. The Imperial Republic 3. Tiberius Gracchus and the Agrarian Problem 4. Gaius Gracchus and the Democratic Party 5. The Rise of Marius 6. Political Dissensions and the Social War 7. Sulla’s Wars with Mithridates and the Democrats 8. Sulla’s Constitution 9. The Rise of Pompey 10. Intrigue and Conspiracy 11. The First Triumvirate 12. The Conquest of Gaul 13. The Prelude to the Civil War 14. The Civil War 15. The Dictatorship of Caesar 16. The Death Agony of the Republic 17. The Second Triumvirate 18. Octavian and Antony 19. The Roman World in the Last Century of the Republic 20. Roman Literature in the Last Century of the Republic
Biography
Frank Burr Marsh
