Study Notes for Chapter 1 of "From Gracchi to Nero, A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68" by: H.H. Scullard

Chapter 1: Rome at the Cross-Roads
September 14, 2004
I)<Tab/>Introductory ~
* The two chief themes of this book:
a)<Tab/>First the century in which the Republic failed to meet the challenge and in consequence crashed to its ruin amid civil war and military dictatorship.
b)<Tab/>Then the following century when the war-weary world was given peace and a stable government though at the cost of seeing the Republic restored only in name by a First Citizen whose authority did not differ widely from that of a constitutional monarch and whose successors b…