A map of the people, events, places, and ideas that shaped Rome’s final century.
The Republic did not fall because one man crossed one river. It fell because a political culture built for a city-state could no longer contain the empire it had created.
The Republic Atlas is the reference library of Livarva. The three books tell the story of the Roman Republic through the lives of Sulla, Caesar and Cato. The Atlas provides the wider historical context in which those lives unfolded.
Romulus, Hannibal, Scipio, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Cato, Cleopatra, and the wider human world of the Republic.
From the founding myths and expulsion of kings to Sulla’s proscriptions, Caesar’s Rubicon, and the Ides of March.
Rome, the Forum, Palatine, Praeneste, Numidia, Gaul, Alexandria, Utica, and the Mediterranean world of Roman power.
Dignitas, virtus, libertas, clementia, mos maiorum, auctoritas, patronage, citizenship, dictatorship, and republic.
Offices, institutions, armies, peoples, religion, society, and the practical structures that sustained Roman public life.
The Republic Atlas can be explored in two ways. You may look for a particular person, place, event or idea, or you may use it alongside the three books.
While reading The Dictatorship, The First Breach or The Final Virtue, the Atlas provides historical background that would interrupt the narrative if included within the books themselves.
Used together, the Library and the Atlas allow readers to move freely between story and reference, creating a richer understanding of the Roman Republic.