Category:Crisis of the Roman Republic

Articles relating to the Crisis of the Roman Republic (134-44 BCE) and its depictions. It was an extended period of political instability and social unrest that culminated in the demise of the Roman Republic and the advent of the Roman Empire. The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades, including the forms of slavery, brigandage, wars internal and external, overwhelming corruption, land reform, the invention of excruciating new punishments, the expansion of Roman citizenship, and even the changing composition of the Roman army.