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Themed Set: The Fall of the Roman Republic

December 5th, 2007 Headsman

Our third Themed Set installment.

During the last century B.C.E., Rome was convulsed by civil wars. When the flames subsided, the Roman Empire had been born out of the ashes of the Republic — though the powerless forms of the latter were diligently preserved by the emperors.

The three executions remembered next all took place during — and as consequence of — this epochal struggle for power.

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1. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | October 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm

[...] Either way, the once-intractable province became the bastion from which Caesar would overthrow the foundering Roman Republic. [...]
2. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | October 18th, 2008 at 2:09 am

[...] Republic had been down this road before. After the peace of Augustus, it was a chilling preview of Imperial Rome’s coming [...]
3. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | December 5th, 2008 at 1:42 am

[...] Themed Set: The Fall of the Roman Republic 41 B.C.E.: Arsinoe IV [...]
4. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | December 6th, 2008 at 2:52 am

[...] Part of the Themed Set: The Fall of the Roman Republic. [...]

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