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The Republic Destroys Itself: Gracchi to Caesar's Rise
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The Roman Republic wasn't conquered — it collapsed under the weight of its own success, a slow structural failure that took over a century and ended with one man standing above everything Rome had built. From the Gracchi brothers' murdered reform movement to Sulla's march on Rome and the First Triumvirate, this episode traces the fault lines that made the fall of the Republic inevitable.
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The Republic didn't fall to a foreign enemy. No army crossed the Alps and broke it.
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