The storm before the storm : the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic / Mike Duncan.

Duncan, Mike, 1980- (author,, narrator.).

Summary:

Mike Duncan tells the story of the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic, the story of the first generation that had to cope with the dangerous new political environment made possible by Rome's unrivaled domination over the known world. The tumultuous years from 133-80 BCE set the stage for the fall of the Republic as the Romans faced rising economic inequality, dislocation of traditional ways of life, political polarization, the breakdown of unspoken rules of political conduct, the privatization of the military, rampant corruption, endemic social and ethnic prejudice, battles over access to citizenship and voting rights, and a set of elites so obsessed with their own privileges that they refused to reform the system in time to save it, a situation that draws many parallels to present-day America. And as everyone knows, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Record details

ISBN: 9781549167775
Physical Description: 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF : maps ; 4 3/4 in.)
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York, NY : Hachette Audio ; [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from disc label. Includes bonus PDF with timeline (146-78 B.C.) ; map of Roman Italy ; map of the Republican empire. Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author.