Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome

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It also provides the reader with many insights into the murky and increasingly violent roman politics. Issues of land reform and of extending roman citizenship increasingly take centre stage. I recommend this to anyone who wants insight this overlooke... Read More

Sulla, marius and the social wars of 90 bc. The failure of roman political institutions to accommodate the aspirations of allied communities throughout italy to full citizenship produced a * revolt. The book does a good job in explaining the complexit... Read More

Although the sources for these events are very fragmented, matyszak does an excellent job at scouring many sources for references to the events. He presents a condensed overview of the events and their causes and consequences on conditions that they d... Read More

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This ruins a wonderful book by one of the finest writers of roman history. There is no new material.

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It also provides the reader with many insights into the murky and increasingly violent roman politics with the issues of land r... Read More

In cataclysm 90 bc matyszak intertwines this obscure event with the more well known events at the end of the republic to create... Read More

There is a handful of other such simplifications where the author has tried to “cut corners” and not always with the best results

The roman republic first started coming apart with the social wars

Competitiveness

Great book on a underated period in roman history

So close to a fivestar though i dinged the book for a lack of a final edit

First of all it sells at a fractious of the price of the more scholarly version

The book highlights a couple of key reasons1

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This product had a total of 101 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 9 2022.