The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

Mike Duncan, the historian and broadcaster behind The History of Rome podcast, traces the years 146 to 78 BCE, the half-century before Caesar in which the Roman Republic quietly broke. Duncan covers Marius, Sulla, the Gracchi brothers, and the slow normalisation of political violence that paved the way for the dramatic collapse to come. The book reads like narrative thriller while sticking closely to the primary sources.