Ahve, and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr. Reannan. Lott

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

classics and ancient history at Lottrobe University. This is episode XC-I. The beginning of the end of the Republic.

The Roman Republic had a relatively good run and close to 400 years after it was established

it was still going strong. It was towards the end of the second century

b.c. that the establishment came under challenge and in fact we can put a year on it

one thirty three b cee. In this year there were two significant deaths that would kick off the beginning of the end for the Roman Republic.

Here's Rianna Evans.

One claim that Roman historians make is that the fall of the republic begins, so the beginning of

the end is in 133 b.C. E. It's very hard to put a precise date on when something

starts to happen in history.

I'm surprised you can put a year on it though because it takes time for things to break down,

but there's certain things that happen in that year.

It's very much an emblematic year. Obviously, as in all of this

periodization, it's an after-the-fact addition. But until that point, some of these forces have been gathering but that year there are two really big

events that seem to throw into focus all of the problems that the Romans will have for the next

century and the bit.

Okay so you said that there's two events that happening this year, so what are they?

The first one looked really good for Rome, and that is that Attilous the third of Pergumum dies and he leaves his empire to Rome.

Yeah right.

Just like that.

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