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Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 4: Roman Republic (IA3)

Useful Websites and Articles

The Roman Empire - The fall of the Roman Republic (Penn State University)
Lecture 26: Fall of the Roman Republic, 133-27 BC (Purdue University)
History Collection: Ancient Men of Power - The Roman Republic's Most Influential Leaders
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic: The Crisis of the Republic
Epilogue: The Fall of the Roman Republic
By Crook, J. A ; Lintott, Andrew ; and Rawson, Elizabeth. Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge 1994. Book Chapter. Discusses whether Rome declined or whether it was assassinated. Accessed via JSTOR database.
The Fall of the Roman Republic
By Ridley, RT, in Agora Magazine, March 2016, Vol.51(1), p.63-66. Accessed via History Reference Centre database. Excellent summary of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire.

Famous Leaders of the Roman Republic

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero (UNRV)
Cicero's Role in the Fall of the Roman Republic
By Swain, Edward J. San Diego State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. PhD thesis accessed via JSTOR database.
The Philosophical and Political Decline of Rome according to Cicero (CoffeeShop Thinking)

Cover Art Cicero

EBOOK: As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous accounts of the murder, corruption and violence that plagued Rome in the first century BC, his surviving letters give an exceptional glimpse into Cicero's own personality and his reactions to events as they unravelled around him - events, he thought, which threatened to destabilize the system of government he loved and establish a tyranny over Rome. From his rise to power as a self-made man, Cicero's career took him through the years of Sulla, and the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, to his own last fig

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

Britannica: Sulla
Britannica: Civil War and the rule of Lucius Sulla
World History Encyclopedia - Sulla
Sulla (UNRV)
World History Encyclopedia - Sulla's reforms as dictator
Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Guardian or Enemy of the Roman Republic? (World History Encyclopedia)
Sulla Lucius Cornelius - From Ancient and Medieval History database. Originally from From: Dictators and Tyrants. By: Alan Axelrod; Charles L. Phillips Published: 1994.
Sulla - Article from Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome eBook. By Matthew Bunson, 2012, published by Infobase Publishing.
Sulla: Playing offence - A deeper look into the motivations and significance of Sulla's march on Rome - Accessed via JSTOR database.
Playing Offence: A Deeper Look into the Motivations and Significance of Sulla's March on Rome - Accessed via JSTOR database.
University of Chicago: Plutarch - The Life of Sulla
Sulla the Dictator

Cover Art Sulla (eBook)

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Oliver Library Catalogue

Oliver Library Catalogue

APA 7 Referencing for Ancient History

The Fall of the Roman Republic (Ebook chapter)

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Possible Research Questions and Sample Response