Republic being established in the year 509 b.c. . The Roman Forum was the center of commercial and civil life during the centuries of the Roman Republic people would gather here to buy and sell to hold elections to listen to speeches and to watch the triumphal procession it s a great Congress of the hundreds of years. It was here that you could hear Roman luminaries such as Cicero one of Romney s greatest orator is the statesman Cato the Elder even Julius Caesar not far from here in the Senate House Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and his coconspirators and it was here in 27 b.c. On this very spot where Caesar s nephew Octavian took the name of all Gustus and was a claimed by the Senate and people of Rome as the state s 1st emperor. From here you could see the great temple of Jupiter who was the supreme god of the Roman people crowning the Summit of the Capitol Hill. It was here in $390.00 b.c. That the city of Rome was secretly infiltrated by a group of Gallic soldiers who s
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Point 7 f.m. In Los Angeles 98.7 f.m. In Santa Barbara. This is Pacific radio s letters and politics on Today show once you start breaking all of these little rules all these things that had been done a certain way now you re going to ignore that city new precedent yet ignore it you re going to set precedents that can be then followed by people who come later and who will then take it even further I mean there s a snowball effect to all of this where there was nothing. Exit there was no immediate existential threat to the Republic but the accumulation of this over the years and decades does roll you all the way eventually to Julius Caesar a conversation on the end of the republic in Rome Our guest is Mike Duncan he is the author of the book the storm before the storm the beginning of the end of the Roman republic type Derrius retaliates and he says Ok We re going to veto my Bill Wyman to veto every bill right now we re now we re just as you said now we re just going to shut down the g
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Forum from the b.b.c. World Service where our subject today is a soldier a statesman and scribe who s famous the world over even though he lived more than 2000 years ago as a general he conquered vast territory as a speaker he captivated audiences and the politician he transformed the Roman Republic and he s winning streak came to an end when he was murdered by his colleagues his name Julius Caesar. His impact has been so great that he legacy lives on in the German and Russian words for absolute rulers Kaiser and saw and is the basis for the name of the month July a man whose life and death has become the stuff of legend even inspiring a play by Shakespeare. So what do we know about Caesar and the troubled times in which he was born how did he build such an incredible career and what prompted the assassination that brought it all to an end I m Bridget Kendall and I m joined by 3 experts ready to share their knowledge Cynthia Damon is a classist at the University of Pennsylvania in the