Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

The Causes and Development of Political Violence in the Late Roman Republic

Authors
Zefu Sun1875246154suzz@gmail.com
Changjun High School, Changsha, Hunan 410002, China
Corresponding Author
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.199How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Rome; the Roman Republic; the Roman Empire; Roman economy; imperial transformation; political violence
Abstract

This essay attempts to provide a possible perspective on a topic of long-term controversy-how the Roman country converted from a republic into an empire. By reading materials written by ancient historians, combined with some further conclusions drawn by modern scholars, the author focuses on the original motives and interests of different classes in Rome and analyzes the causes of the early Republic’s political balance and its subsequent collapse, as well as the origin, the development, and the influence of political violence. The author believes that the traditional political order of the Roman Republic collapsed due to the economic impact derived from several major expansion wars in the third and second century BC. And political violence then became the coordinator and the arbiter of Roman politics. Finally, in order to accommodate the demand to establish a new balance based on political violence, with Caesar’s victory in the civil war being the milestone, the Roman institution gradually evolved into a dictatorship. The author hopes that this essay could appeal to people to discard ideological or moral standpoints and analyze the imperial transformation of the Roman Republic according to the objective historical conditions and universal human nature.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.199How to use a DOI?
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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