Avera, and welcome to Emperor 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 XC-I-V, a republic worth fighting for.

Rome is now past the years of Sulla as a dictator,

but the rich and powerful are only encouraged, finding new ways to claw power for themselves.

Both Krasas and Pompey use the might of the sword to force their agenda,

while senators like Catalan aren't beyond the old-fashioned method of putting a dagger in somebody's back.

Here's Rianna Evans. After Salla dies, the Senate doesn't really want to undo what he has done

because a lot of it is pro-Senate.

So it's given power up to the Senate or restored powers

to the Senate that the tribunes have tried to undo.

And there's not really a move to bring in another dictator because even during

solver's life he had given up being dictator and gone into retirement. So there's a

sort of uneasy balance. But remember even within the Senate there are those who want to move for a shift of power.

The tribunes in particular.

Nearly every year there's going to be at least one tribune who's going to try and bring in some kind of, they might call it progressive move.

And people shift around and we'll see that as we explore the 70s and 60s.

So Pompey kind of starts on one side and moves over to the other. They don't kind of nail their

colours to the mast and never moves. Because these aren't political parties really. It's very easy for us to see

them through that focus, but they're loose alliances and people change their

allegiance. So it's a bit of an uneasy time and there are still individual figures rising up to power.

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