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made your day. Speaking of, time for emperors of Rome.

Arve, and welcome to Emperors of Rome a Roman history podcast from Lattrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr. Rianna Evans, a senior lecturer in

classics and ancient history at Latrobe University. This is episode XCI,

the Roman Constitution. Today we begin a series on the fall of the Roman Republic,

with a look at how it came to be and how it worked.

The Roman Republic is often held up as a foundation model of Western democracy.

And while it worked well for some of the Romans at the time, it did have its flaws.

As the centuries past, these problems became more pronounced, here's Rianen Evans.

Why are we now looking at the fall of the Roman Republic as a topic and what are we trying to achieve with this?

Well one reason is that we're going backwards from emperors of Rome.

So we started with Julius Caesar who wasn't an emperor as we well remember,

but then we did move on to the emperors and while

Colleen goes forward with the emperors I'm stretching time backwards by looking

at the Republican period so before Augustus in the BC period and I wanted to set the scene with a short series of podcasts that give the

context for whoever or whatever event we might look at in the Lake Republic.

And we're concentrating on the Lake Republic because we have more sources for it.

And there were some really big events that happened during it.

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