In the world of Ancient Roman politics, public perception was everything. Augustus was well aware he needed to capitalise on his familial name to earn the people’s trust – even if he was only distantly related to Julius Caesar (more on this to come). Derived from the latin word ‘...
that began during the first years of the republic and lasted for more than 200 years. The discrepancies, inconsistencies, and logical fallacies in the account ofLivy, one of Rome’s greatest historians, make it evident that this thesis of a struggle of the orders is a gross oversimplification...