Roman History Breaks Up Into Two Parts

Roman history breaks up neatly into two partsor two big parts. If people don't remember this from school, it's easy. The first part is the roman republic. This is your pompey, julius caesar, marius, sulla, the grachi,. All of that crowd, the punic wars, hannibal, scipio, africanus, all of those names are roman republic names. So a senate rules things, and you don't have an emperork. Then, famously, on the ides of march forty four b c, the first citizen, tively, the dictator of the r Roman republic, gets executed