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Fall of the Roman Republic
by Plutarch
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This Plutarch selection follows six men whose careers shaped the end of the Roman Republic, usually including Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar and Cicero. It is useful for readers who want the people and political choices behind late-republican civil conflict, rather than a battle-by-battle military history. The lives show how ambition, rivalry, public reputation and command turned republican competition into personal power.