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What Happened to the Roman Aristocracy?

April 9, 2022 By Robin Levin Leave a Comment

Cornelius, Aemilius, Fabius, Claudius, Julius, Junius, Sempronius, and Livius were all prominent Romen gens until the first century B.C. What happened to them and why did they fade from prominence in Rome? Beginning with the conflict between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Rome experienced intermittent civil wars throughout the first seventy years of the […]

Filed Under: Ancient Rome Tagged With: Aemilius, Claudius, Cornelius, Cursus Honorum, Fabius, Gaius Marius, Julius, Julius Caesar, Junius, Livius, Luciu Cornelius Sulla, Marc Antony, Octavian, Pompey Magnus, publius cornelius scipio africanus, Sempronius

Book Review: Pompey, Rising Sun by Robert Allen Johnson

September 5, 2014 By Robin Levin 3 Comments

“Oh you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome. Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft have you climbed up to the walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the live-long day, with patient expectation, to see great Pompey pass the […]

Filed Under: Ancient Rome, Book Review Tagged With: Ahenobarbus, Cicero, Cornelius Cinna, Gneius Pompey, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Papirius Carbo, Pompey Magnus, Pompey Strabo

Book Review: Caesar’s Daughter-Julia’s song

June 9, 2014 By Robin Levin Leave a Comment

“It was a paranoid time in the City. Politicians were more concerned with denying glory to their rivals than with solving problems. Everybody was stabbing everybody in the back. There was no legitimate economy-it was characterized by exploitation and unsustainable debt. Discontent among the masses was rising-there were high levels of unemployment, and great resentment […]