tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post4817401290285305138..comments2023-11-02T10:22:20.717-04:00Comments on Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Social Conflict in the Roman RepublicMike Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-42641528807831785732020-09-11T21:30:21.557-04:002020-09-11T21:30:21.557-04:00👌👌👌👌Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445304887626163559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-42912113329021482942015-10-02T11:02:23.245-04:002015-10-02T11:02:23.245-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03638501174690094850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-30549382332076671972014-10-10T06:20:12.307-04:002014-10-10T06:20:12.307-04:00Great Blog! Thanks for such nice information that ...Great Blog! Thanks for such nice information that you provide just increases the knowledge of the readers, and really sad to read that the man died in Rome battle there families were left on there own behalf.....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660839631468621396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-37371087091973725172014-09-18T19:32:35.375-04:002014-09-18T19:32:35.375-04:00Fantastic post. Thanks for your erudition. Roman s...Fantastic post. Thanks for your erudition. Roman society was falling apart. I now understand how and why the Senate lost its prestige. It is quite sad to see that when a man died in battle for Rome, his family was left destitute. That is so wrong. <br /><br />I can see this leading up to Saturninus. I wrote in an article:<br /><br /><i>Circa 100 B.C., the Roman Republic suffered the same paradigm of synoecism when the tribune Saturninus, a demogogue, brought forward a law for the redistribution of land. Embeded within it was a clause that the Roman Senate had to publicly swear an oath to conform to the people's will in their vote and could not upon pain of punishment and expulsion from the Senate oppose it in any way. By the threat of mob violence, all but one of the senators acquiesced, and the law was passed.125 Though the Senate and the Senators remained, they were but shallow figureheads devoid of any political power. For a short time, the Roman Republic descended into ochlocracy. Convulsed with civil upheavels and fragmented by faction, the Roman Republic was in its death throes and succumbed to dictatorship in less than sixty years.</i><br /><br />Do I have this right? Rome was suffering the <i>anakyklosis</i>; the turning of government.W.LindsayWheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06236577164127792348noreply@blogger.com