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Densaner wrote:Oh yes, the Gracchi bros. Bash, slash, splash.

Bwhahahahahaha.

SPQR 🏛️

Don't know if you're into podcasts, but there's a couple great ones on the Roman Republic, and its end, which feature the Gracchi:

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-throes-of-the-republic-series/

That's my absolute favorite podcast: "Hardcore History" by Dan Carlin. He's just a phenomenal storyteller, has a great presentation style, and creates these deeply-researched multi-part epics.

That's a five-part series, around 10 hours in total.

The only downside is that the older shows must be purchased. Newer ones are free, until they get bumped behind the paywall, eventually. The value is well worth it, though.

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The other is "The History of Rome" with Mike Duncan.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/archives.html

This is an exhaustive walkthrough all of Roman history. Incredibly-detailed. Episode by episode, year after year, he crawls through the history of Rome from its early days until its fall. Not as dramatic or "epic" feeling as the other podcast, but he's quite fun to listen to, if a bit drier. I learned so damn much from this, it's hard to quantify.

He has another podcast, now ongoing, called "Revolutions," where he goes through modern history's major revolutions, from the English Civil War and American Revolution, ending with the Russian Revolution (this last still being put out, currently). Very fun, he'll walk you street by street through the urban fighting, delve deep into back-stories, go broad in scope and impact...so good.

Revolutions
https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

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