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Sources
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015)
Ban Yuk-deok et al., Seoyangsa Gangjwa (Lectures on Western History), Acanet (2022) — Ch. 3, "Ancient Rome and the Mediterranean World" [Korean]
Jeong Gi-mun, Seoyang Godaesa (A History of the Ancient West), Chaekgwahamkke (2021) — Part 3, "Ancient Rome" [Korean]
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:53 The Founding of Rome
05:10 Founding of the Republic
12:03 Unifying the Italian Peninsula
17:40 First Punic War
24:39 Battle of Cannae
31:03 Battle of Zama
37:53 Fall of Carthage
44:57 The Gracchi Brothers
53:03 Age of the Warlords
01:00:30 First Triumvirate
01:09:24 Crossing the Rubicon
01:17:28 Battle of Actium
01:26:27 Birth of the Empire
01:32:41 Hereditary Dynasties
01:42:01 Five Good Emperors
01:47:38 Crisis of the Third Century
01:54:04 Moving the Capital to Constantinople
02:01:21 Fall of the Western Roman Empire
02:07:31 Justinian I
02:14:46 Siege of Constantinople
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