Overview
The Roman Republic was not a modern democracy but a system of magistracies, Senate, assemblies, custom, hierarchy, and civic obligation.
Importance
Its fall cannot be explained by one man alone. It collapsed when empire, inequality, army loyalty, political violence, and moral exhaustion overwhelmed institutions built for a smaller world.
In the Livarva Trilogy
The entire Livarva project is an inquiry into how this Republic failed through the lives of Sulla, Caesar, and Cato.
This first atlas entry is drafted from the Livarva manuscripts and will be expanded with exact chapter and source references in a later version.