Did Rome’s Wealth Spawn the World's First Socialist Revolution?

Move over Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Mayor Mamdani, and Let the Gracchi Brothers Take Over.

In last week’s blog, we saw how the massive infusion of Greek culture infiltrated every sector of Roman life, widening the gulf separating traditionalists from modernists, pitting citizens against one another in a hotly contested struggle for the soul of its civilization. Today’s post addresses how Rome’s extraordinary financial growth in the wake of its territorial expansion further polarized the public into competing factions, drawing ever closer to a level of domestic violence not seen in hundreds of years.