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Following Sulla’s death, the narrative examines the fractured opposition to the restored oligarchy—legal conservatives, senatorial moderates, popular radicals, dispossessed communities, freedmen, and ruined soldiers—and how their competing aims enabled ambitious military leaders to form shifting coalitions. Escalating rivalries produce civil wars and decisive campaigns that dismantle oligarchic control, break political alliances, and concentrate authority in armed commanders, effecting a transition from republican magistracies toward a military-based autocracy. The final chapters survey the consequences of this transformation for institutions, public religion, education, literature, and the arts.
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