Rome: From Republic to Empire

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The specialist in Roman history of Antiquity, Nikita Tsybikov, proposes to trace the political history of Rome from the first symptoms of the crisis of the republican model in the second half of the 2nd century BC to the decline of the rule of the first dynasty of emperors from the Julio-Claudian family in the second half of the 1st century AD.

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The Gracchi Brothers

The activities of the Gracchus brothers are traditionally considered the end of the history of the classical Republic and the beginning of its crisis, which resulted in a series of civil wars. What was Rome like in the second half of the 2nd century BC, and who were the Gracchus brothers in it – read in the first article of the course.