TY - BOOK AU - Mackay, Christopher S. TI - The breakdown of the Roman republic: from oligarchy to empire SN - 9781107657021 U1 - 973.05 22 PY - 2012///, ©2009 CY - Cambridge ; New York : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. KW - Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. KW - Politics and government KW - Rome (Empire) N1 - 1. Historical background -- ; 2. Tribunate of Ti. Gracchus -- ; 3. Tribunates of C. Gracchus -- ; 4. Numidia, senatorial failures, and the rise of C. Marius -- ; 5. Ascendancy of C. Marius -- ; 6. The Italian allies, M. Livius Drusus, and the social war -- ; 7. Sulla, Marius, and civil war -- ; 8. Roman territorial expansion before the first Mithridatic War -- ; 9. First Mithridatic War -- ; 10. Sulla's victory in civil war -- ; 11. Sulla's settlement -- ; 12. The 70s B.C. : attacks on the Sullan regime and the rise of Pompey -- ; 13. Third Mithridatic War, war with the pirates, and the ascendancy of Pompey -- ; 14. The 60s B.C. : Rome in the absence of Pompey -- ; 15. Consulship of Cicero -- ; 16. Consulship of C. Caesar -- ; 17. Caesar in Gaul -- ; 18. Last decade of the free republic -- ; 19. Civil war and Caesar's victory -- ; 20. Caesar's domination and assassination -- ; 21. Turmoil after the Ides of March -- ; 22. Struggle of the warlords -- ; 23. Final showdown -- ; 24. The Augustan Settlement and the "restored" republic N2 - In this book, Christopher S. Mackay recounts the last century of the Roman Republic in a readable narrative treatment. Within this narrative he analyzes the breakdown of the traditional Republican form of government as a result of the administrative and political crises brought about by the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean basin in the Middle Republic ER -