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How Democratic Was The Roman Republic? The Theory and Practice of an Archetypal DemocracyBrown, Zachary S
Russia’s multi-tentacled Wagner Group is not just sending mercenaries to Ukrainian. It’s also fighting the West with making slick propaganda films.
The Senate, dominated by the patrician aristocracy, functioned as an advisory body in theory, but in practice, itexercised significant controlover finances, foreign policy, and much of the legislative process. Nonetheless, there was strong competition among patrician families for the two annual consul...
Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work, and I mentioned that civilizations usually only last 500 years. The only problem was that I couldn't remember where I had heard that. In fact, I wasn't all that sure that I was right. I know that the Roman Empire lasted roughly 500...
Julius Caesar was a masterful politician and warrior, and as he gained and influence in the Roman Republic, he set his sights ever higher. After a struggle that resulted in civil war, he emerged as the most powerful man in Rome. He installed hundreds of his allies in the Senate and in ...
Indian gods, known to the Roman world at the time, and it's incredibly hard to imagine that a man who could walk on water, cure any illness or disability, and feed thousands out of thin air was not going to receive an express ticket to Capri to demonstrate these powers to Tiberius...
but that financial perspective has subsequently been hidden from us by worthies such as St. Augustine of Hippo, who did favors for the Roman oligarchy by rejiggering Christianity in a way that was beneficial to the balance sheets of the rich instead of detrimental in the way that debt forgiv...
One of the assassination’s leading planners, Marcus Junius Brutus, had prepared to deliver a speech celebrating the Roman Republic’s restoration right after Caesar’s murder. He was shocked to find that outrage, rather than praise, greeted news of the dictator’s killing. If Caesar had been...
Professor Emeritus at DePaul University in Chicago. She also wrote "The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People" in 2017. "They consider that a monument to Mao, because Mao stood up against the United States, the Soviet Union ... any superpower, he was not afraid of."...