The Marian Military Reform and Its Effects on the Roman Republic

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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.294How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Marian reform, Roman army, Roman Republic, Roman Empire

Abstract

This paper investigates the impacts of Caius Marius’s military reform on Roman life and politics from the late second century BC to the early first century AD. It primarily consults ancient historians’ biographies of prominent political figures and accounts of significant wars in the late Roman Republic, with the supplement from analysis in academic articles written by modern scholars. The thesis of this paper argues that the Marian military reform had both the direct effect of restoring strength to the Roman army and the far-reaching repercussions of facilitating violent civil wars and paving the path for the Roman government’s ultimate transformation from a republic to an empire. The Marian military reform contributed significantly to the most pivotal episode in Rome’s history, which became a valuable reference for political philosophers of the later generations.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - The Marian Military Reform and Its Effects on the Roman Republic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
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