Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Populi Romani "The commonwealth of the Roman people") is a historical era of ancient Rome, dated from 509 to 27 BC. The political system of the Republic combined democratic, oligarchic, and monarchical elements (in the traditions of the preceding regal period).

Roman Republic in 44 BC

Main topics covered in the Roman Republic section:

1. Unification of Italy under Roman rule:

• Etruscans;

• Latins;

• Aequi;

• Gallic Invasion;

• Camillus' military reform;

• Samnite Wars;

• War with Pyrrhus.

2. Government structure of the Republican Rome

3. Military campaigns of the Roman Republic:

• First Punic War;

• Second Punic War;

• Third Punic War;

• Rome's war with Macedonia;

• Slave Rebellion in Sicily;

• Spartacus' Rebellion;

4. Internal politics in Republican Rome:

• Reforms of the Gracchi brothers;

• Jugurthine War;

• War with the Cimbri and Teutons;

• Gaius Marius' reform;

• Sulla;

• Sertorian War;

• Catiline Conspiracy;

• Wars with Mithridates Eupator;

• First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompeii, Crassus);

• Second Triumvirate (August, Anthony, Lepidus).

Periodization of the history of the Roman Republic:

• Early Republic (509–287 BC)

• Classical (Middle) Republic (287–133 BC)

• Late Republic (133–27 BC)

Related topics

Rome, Roman Empire, Royal Rome

Literature

1. Dementieva V. V. 2006: Roman Republic: Institutional History and Semiotics // Politics. Ideology. Culture: Problems of World History: Coll. scientific works / V. V. Dementieva, M. E. Erin (Ed.). — Yaroslavl, 3-11.

2. Osterman, Lev. Roman History in Figures. — M.: OGI, 1997. — 624 p.

3. Rome, city/History of the city // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 vols. (82 vols. and 4 additional). — SPb., 1890—1907.

4. Barthold Georg Niebuhr, The History of Rome, Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, trans., John Smith, Cambridge, 1828. Theodor Mommsen, Römische Geschichte, Leipzig, 1854–1856.

5. Frank Frost Abbott, A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions, Elibron Classics, 1901. ISBN 0-543-92749-0

6. Cyril E. Robinson, A History of the Roman Republic, London, Methuen, 1932.

7. F. W. Walbank, A. E. Astin, M. W. Frederiksen, R. M. Ogilvie (editors), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2, The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C., Cambridge University Press, 1989.

8. J. A. Crook, F. W. Walbank, M. W. Frederiksen, R. M. Ogilvie (editors), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VIII, Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C., Cambridge University Press, 1989.