Name Ideas for a tl about a Roman Republic that doesn't expand past Italy

I am doing a timeline where a Roman Republic that decides to not allow people to get citizenship as easily is in control because of a political movement before the first punic war. And thus doesn't have the power to expand into an empire, but stays a regional power (controlling Italy but not much else).
I'm thinking about calling it "Rome for the Romans", an idea from the WI/AHC where I originally brought up the idea.
 
I don't have anything useful to suggest, but I'd just like to say that I like this idea and i'll definitely be reading your timeline.
 
I am doing a timeline where a Roman Republic that decides to not allow people to get citizenship as easily is in control because of a political movement before the first punic war. And thus doesn't have the power to expand into an empire, but stays a regional power (controlling Italy but not much else).
I'm thinking about calling it "Rome for the Romans", an idea from the WI/AHC where I originally brought up the idea.

I guess you brought up this idea from this thread.
It was me who suggested this POD and the slogan "Rome for the Romans". But on second thoughts I don't consider it too much appropriate:
the Roman citizens were not in Rome alone. They were spread in the Roman State.

And the POD - the revolution of the Roman plebs forces the law - "from now on the legitimite Roman is the one who is borne by a Roman male citizen and a Roman female citizen." The death penalty for offenders.

Well something like it was in Athens...
 
<snip> And the POD - the revolution of the Roman plebs forces the law - "from now on the legitimite Roman is the one who is borne by a Roman male citizen and a Roman female citizen." The death penalty for offenders. <snip>
So when the plebs take over during the Roman civil war that comes in as part of the package? Is their a reason why they would want this?
 
Is their a reason why they would want this?
The reason is simple.
The same reason as the Athenians had to close the admission to citizenship. (Actually it was close from the very beginning.) Carthage had the same.
And the same as the citizens of the USA have a very good reason nowadays to prohibit appearing of the new citizens of their country.

It is the nature of things.
Especially when the state is rich and prosperous and the new citizens get the same advantages as the old ones.
 
well the name was the roman republic when ti just barely got off italy...so i doubt very much theyd change it
 
well the name was the roman republic when ti just barely got off italy...so i doubt very much theyd change it
No for the timeline, not the republic. As in a title like "A Grand Republic: The rise and fall of the Roman Republic".
 
I have two options for the main title:
  • Quirinus Defied: A Lesser Rome
  • A Grand Republic: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
  • Italia: the world of a lesser rome
 
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I guess you brought up this idea from this thread.
It was me who suggested this POD and the slogan "Rome for the Romans". But on second thoughts I don't consider it too much appropriate:
the Roman citizens were not in Rome alone. They were spread in the Roman State.

Yes and no. It obviously depends on the era, but until quite late - throughout the Republican period, certainly, and most of the Principate - Roman basically meant "from the seven hills." This being distinct from Roman citizen, obviously.

It was less that Rome, the city, was the heart of Rome, the nation or civilization - Rome was the nation. She had just come to possess the world.
 
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