{"id":72952,"date":"2022-04-11T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=72952"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:56:54","slug":"republic-to-empire-the-ides-of-march-to-actium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/republic-to-empire-the-ides-of-march-to-actium\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic to Empire: The Ides of March to Actium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fH-8lMtzvZg?si=_AKozpMb5qK2WS3l\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Mar 2021<\/p>\n<p>In 120 BC, Rome was a republic with touches of democracy. A century later, it was a divine right military dictatorship. Between January and March 2021, Sean Gabb explored this transformation with his students. Here is one of his lectures. All student contributions have been removed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More by Sean Gabb on the Ancient World: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicstuition.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.classicstuition.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn Latin or Greek or both with him: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/user\/sean-gabb\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/user\/sean-gabb\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His historical novels (under the pen name \u201cRichard Blake\u201d): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVdvZk9Bd08tYWhVczkwXzhyRmdEaEwzUFgzUXxBQ3Jtc0tuVWx4dVdVelUyVGM1dThNVlZtZ1htQ1BKMkJnNUZxcHliVUFYR29HWmkybmVQOEZzWU1mZllVNDQzYWRyQ1BQOUs5el85NjJ0aDZpNnV5STZQalJSdmJwWFZyTm1hZ1lTMXBRMFJ1R1dKOHlxSmx3QQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FRichard-Blake%2Fe%2FB005I2B5PO\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Richard-Blak&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 13 Mar 2021 In 120 BC, Rome was a republic with touches of democracy. A century later, it was a divine right military dictatorship. Between January and March 2021, Sean Gabb explored this transformation with his students. Here is one of his lectures. All student contributions have been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526,7,339,370,5],"tags":[1340,1315,650,588,1111,1345,1468,553],"class_list":["post-72952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-italy","category-middle-east","category-military","tag-augustus","tag-cicero","tag-civilwar","tag-egypt","tag-juliuscaesar","tag-romanrepublic","tag-seangabb","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-iYE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72952","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=72952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87194,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72952\/revisions\/87194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}