Read The End of the Republic: Three Views and then participate in the discussion. Your post should address all aspects of the question, be 5-8 sentences in length, and have complete sentences. Make sure you respond to at least one of your classmates' posts. You must post your own response before you can read the other posts.What do the differences between Caesar and Cicero tell you about the end of the republic?What do these three selections have in common in regard to the fall of the republic?How do they differ? **Opposing Viewpoints: The End of the Republic: Three Views**Although Rome stood supreme over the Mediterranean world by 133 B.C.E., the internal structure of the republic had begun to disintegrate. During the next hundred years, the republic was afflicted with mob violence, assassinations, civil wars, and unscrupulous politicians who seized every opportunity to advance their own interests. The Roman historian Sallust (86-35 B.C.E.), who lived through many of these crises, reflected on the causes of Rome’s problems. In the first selection below, he discusses the moral decline that set in after the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C.E. Sallust presented a broad, philosophical view of the problem, but some figures directly involved in the struggles of the last century—namely, Caesar and Cicero—had their own ideas about the immediate crisis that led to the end of the republic. In the second selection, taken from *The Civil Wars*, Caesar presents a defense of his decision to move into Italy with his troops. In the third selection, a letter from Cicero to his friend Atticus, Cicero indicates what he thinks of Caesar’s action.**Sallust, The War with Catiline**Good morals were cultivated at home and in the field; [in the early republic] there was the greatest harmony and little or no avarice; justice and honesty prevailed among them, thanks not so much to laws as to nature. Quarrels, discord, and strife were reserved for their enemies; citizen vied with citizen only for the prize of merit. They were lavish in their offerings to the gods, frugal in the home, loyal to their friends. By practicing these two qualities, boldness in warfare and justice when peace came, they watched over themselves and their country. But when our country had grown great through toil and the practice of justice, when great kings had been vanquished in war, savage tribes had been subdued by force of arms, when Carthage, the rival of Rome’s sway, had perished root and branch, and all seas and lands were open, then Fortune began to grow cruel and to bring confusion into all our affairs. Those who had found it easy to bear hardships and dangers, adversity, found leisure and wealth, . . . a burden and a curse. Hence the lust for power first, then for money, grew upon them; these were, I may say, the **Cicero, Letter to Atticus**Pray, what's all this? What is going on? I am in the dark. Is it a Roman general or Hannibal we are talking of? Deluded wretch, with never in his [Caesar’s] life a glimpse of even the shadow of Good! And he says he is doing all this for his honor’s sake! Where is honor without moral good? And is it good to have an army without public authority, to seize Roman towns by way of opening the road to the mother city, to plan debt cancellations, recall of exiles, and a hundred other villainies “all for that first of deities, Sole Power”? He is welcome to his greatness. I would rather a single hour with you, warming myself in that “bonus” sunshine of yours, than all such autocracies, or rather I had sooner die a thousand deaths than entertain one such thought.---**Q.** How did Caesar view the steps he had taken? How did Cicero view those steps? What do the differences between Caesar and Cicero tell you about the end of the republic? How do the views of Caesar and Cicero give support to Sallust’s argument? What do these three selections have in common in regard to the fall of the republic? How do they differ?**Sources:**- Sallust, The War with Catiline. Reprinted from Sallust, _Loeb Classical Library_, trans. by J. C. Rolfe, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1921. The Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.- Caesar, The Civil Wars. Reprinted from Caesar, _The Civil Wars_, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. The Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.- Cicero’s Letter to Atticus. Reprinted from Cicero’s _Letters to Atticus, Vol. IV_, D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. The Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Read The End of the Republic: Three Views and then participate in the discussion. Your post should address all aspects of the question, be 5-8 sentences in length, and have complete sentences. Make sure you respond to at least one of your classmates' posts. You must post your own response before you can read the other posts. What do the differences between Caesar and Cicero tell you about the end of the republic? What do these three selections have in common in regard to the fall of the republic? How do they differ?

Read The End of the Republic: Three Views and then participate in the discussion. Your post should address all aspects of the question, be 5-8 sentences in length, and have complete sentences. Make sure you respond to at least one of your classmates' posts. You must post your own response before you can read the other posts. What do the differences between Caesar and Cicero tell you about the end of the republic? What do these three selections have in common in regard to the fall of the republic? How do they differ?