David interviews Professor Edward Watts about his book Mortal Republic. Republics don’t have to die, but they often do. What lead to the fall of the Roman Republic? Dr. Watts and David discuss this and more.

Books discussed today (Links will take you to Amazon. Ordering after clicking on the link will help this site.):

* Mortal Republic by Edward Watts

* Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic by Nathan Rosenstein

* SPQR by Mary Beard

* Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss

* The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper

* Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CEby Josiah Osgood

* Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown

* The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey

Intro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly

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