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You're replying to a comment about a book that details the events prior to Julius Caesar, who was at the very end of the republic, not its cause.
by mmanfrin 3y ago
You're replying to a comment about a book that details the events prior to Julius Caesar, who was at the very end of the republic, not its cause.
- philipov 3y agoThe cause of what? We don't know much about the cause of the republic because any records of that were lost in the first sack of Rome. As for the cause of the fall of the republic, Julius Caesar did not cause those factors to exist, but in him we see the culmination of a hundred years of learning how to abuse the flaws in their civic constitution. He wasn't the first, but he put all the pieces together. In fact, I think he's quite similar to Philip II, who put all the pieces together in Macedon. Alexander the Great was able to reach such heights because he had the way paved for him, the same way Julius Caesar paved the way for Octavian.