RoyalGovnaWatts

Which do you have more of an interest in and why?

Qymaen

The Empire

Learning about the fall of empires is such great fun. I know much more of Imperial Rome than the Roman Republic, not that I know that much on either.

Mandate of Heaven

The late Republic. I mean who isn't interested in a period that is full of fascinating and powerful personalities? Caesar, Octavian, Anthony, Pompey, Crassus, Sulla, Marius, Cato, Brutus, and there are many, many more.

RoyalGovnaWatts

I'm intrigued by the early Republic as well

Shadow Dragon

To me the Republic is a little bit more interesting. I like reading how Rome grew into the dominant power of the Mediterranean Sea. And the late republic have some of the most interesting people in Roman history, particularly Julius Caesar.

Caracalla

My area of interest begins with Romulus and ends with Alexander Severus. After that my interest wanes.

plutoboyz

late republic for me.

Labienus

Thats also my view. The Late Republic (133-44 BCE) is my favorite period of history.

Salah

I love it all to a point, but my area of special interest begins with Vespasian and ends with Diocletian.

pikeshot1600

Interesting....I seem to be in a minority (as frequently, I am).

My interest begins roughly with Diocletian and sort of ends with the establishment of the Christian barbarian kingdoms around 500 AD. I am particularly interested in the army of the late Empire, and in the aspect of those kingdoms as preservers of Romanitas rather than its destroyer. (Cue the controversy chorus! )

It is hard to really say why the period interests me, but the Principate was a very complicated mechanism, and it is something of a miracle that it functioned as well as it did. It is also interesting to trace the co-opting of the Church as an agent of the State.

There is no way I can agree that Christianity destroyed the Roman Empire.