Today is Tuesday, October 16, 2018.

It is the day the storm before the storm, the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic,

comes out in paperback.

To celebrate, I want to share with you a little bit of bonus content that I produced last

year as part of our promotional efforts for the hardback.

It is an epilogue to the book called The Failure of the Sullen Constitution, which goes

into more detail about the decade or so after the death of Sulla, how his former partisans

turned on each other and his former enemies worked their way back into public life.

By the time Pompey and Crassus were sharing their infamous consulship in 70 BC, the Roman

Republic Sulla believed he had saved was well on its way to ruin.

So first, go buy the storm before the storm, either in hardback or now in paperback.

Second, read the storm before the storm, and then third, listen to this epilogue, and

please enjoy it with my compliments.

Hello, and welcome to the storm before the storm, epilogue, The Failure of the Sullen

Constitution.

So hello friends, I would like to thank you very much for your support and for spreading

the gospel of the storm before the storm, the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic.

And since you bought two copies, this here is your reward.

I want to talk to you now about how specifically the Sullen Constitution broke down in the years

after Sulla's death in 78 BC.

Recall from the book that I spent the first half of chapter 13 walking through the reforms

that Sulla implemented when he became the dictator for the settling of the laws and the

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