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I'll have to check those out. My book reccomendation is [i]Swords Against The Senate[/i], by Erik Hildinger. The book goes through all the fun little skirmishes, wars, and political mudslinging that led to the Republic getting all sorts of fucked up, covering most everything before Caesar enters the picture and tries to establish some semblance of order again through civil war and establishing a Triumvirate. The book goes into great detail about the Roman army as well.
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Haha, see, [i]Imperium[/i] covers the same period from the opposite point of view: Caesar is depicted as a ruthlessly ambitious megalomaniac that brings about the fall of the Republic, because that's what Cicero thought of him. Fascinating stuff.