{"id":104761,"date":"2026-09-12T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104761"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:49:59","slug":"how-the-roman-republic-collapsed-into-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/how-the-roman-republic-collapsed-into-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Roman Republic Collapsed Into Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYFzOgc7ikE?si=V6_dMqOoiarkuiO2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who was Gaius Marius&#8217; son, and how did he set out to bring down his father&#8217;s rival, Sulla? Which two rising stars in Sulla&#8217;s faction, Crassus and Pompey, would go on to bring down the Republic, with Julius Caesar? And, how did a momentous battle in the East see Sulla elevated to the master of Rome?<\/p>\n<p>Join Tom and Dominic as they reach the climactic conclusion to the remarkable rise of one of Rome&#8217;s greatest generals: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a man who would destroy his rivals, win victories in the east, and ruthlessly change the destiny of the Roman Republic forever.  <\/p>\n<p>0:00 The Roman Republic Implodes<br \/>\n0:40 Sulla&#8217;s Return<br \/>\n3:05 Cinna and the Marians<br \/>\n8:03 Cinna&#8217;s Disastrous Plan<br \/>\n12:20 Sulla&#8217;s Enemies Collapse<br \/>\n14:07 Crassus Joins Sulla<br \/>\n17:01 The Rise of Pompey<br \/>\n21:16 Marius the Younger<br \/>\n24:13 The Marian Cause Collapses<br \/>\n25:03 The Samnites March on Rome<br \/>\n26:03 The Battle of the Colline Gate<br \/>\n28:45 Anthropic<br \/>\n29:57 Sulla Takes Control of Rome<br \/>\n35:05 The Proscriptions Begin<br \/>\n41:18 The End of the Marians<br \/>\n42:41 Pompey the &#8220;Teenage Butcher&#8221;<br \/>\n44:20 Pompey Demands a Triumph<br \/>\n47:28 Sulla&#8217;s Great Paradox<br \/>\n48:02 Sulla Becomes Dictator<br \/>\n51:27 Rebuilding the Republic<br \/>\n54:00 Sulla Gives Up Power<br \/>\n55:30 Sulla&#8217;s Wild Retirement<br \/>\n58:42 The Death of Sulla<br \/>\n59:58 Did Sulla Doom the Republic?<br \/>\n1:01:54 Why Didn&#8217;t Sulla Become Emperor?<br \/>\n1:02:46 Julius Caesar Learns from Sulla<br \/>\n1:04:01 Cicero Bonus Episode <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Gaius Marius&#8217; son, and how did he set out to bring down his father&#8217;s rival, Sulla? Which two rising stars in Sulla&#8217;s faction, Crassus and Pompey, would go on to bring down the Republic, with Julius Caesar? And, how did a momentous battle in the East see Sulla elevated to the master of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[1391,650,1564,1565,1345,1488,1604],"class_list":["post-104761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-biography","tag-civilwar","tag-crassus","tag-pompey","tag-romanrepublic","tag-sulla","tag-therestishistory"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rfH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104762,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104761\/revisions\/104762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}