u/Astrogator studies epigraphy (which many of you will actually find quite pertinent to some of your questions, as a lot of material on Augustus and many magistrates is recorded purely through inscriptions) and also is going to be helping us out with the "Romanization" of Italy and the tribunate of the younger Drusus As such he considers himself to be mainly supplementary to the rest of our panelists, but of course his addition is wonderful and very useful to all of us! However, he would like to point out to everyone that though Roman military history may be very popular, there's a lot more to Rome than war. He's offered to tackle most of the very specific questions about Roman military history for us. u/DonaldFDraper, despite his current flair, is also an expert in Roman military history and used to be flaired as such (before he asked it to be changed to reflect his current bent towards French Revolutionary history). Additionally, citizen knows a great deal about how the Roman political structure was "supposed" to work, which I think we'll all find instrumental in figuring out what went wrong. His work is highly important as a foundation for understanding the political changes occuring among all levels of society during this period. In particular he studies the use and abuse of imperium by consuls and praetors sent overseas from around 218 to 133, a time during which the governance of the provinces and the role of provincial imperium was being worked out. u/edXcitizen87539319 studies the (ab)use of magisterial power, particularly during the middle Republic, but also during the period of our interest. Still, we're here and ready to help! Our panelists specialize in everything from the study of the Roman magistracies, the development of the Roman army (always a favorite on reddit), to epigraphy in the Republic and Empire! We were hoping to get this in before the end of the semester, but sadly we've mostly been swamped with work at the tail end of the semester, so that was a no-go. to the acension of Augustus as emperor at the very end of the 1st Century, B.C.! As this is possibly the singlemost studied field of Roman antiquity we expect lots of juicy questions from you guys, and we'll do our best to answer them.
Hi all! Just in time for the holidays we've finally brought you our long-planned AMA on the end of the Roman Republic, a period of time roughly covering the careers of the Gracchi in the mid-2nd Century, B.C.
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