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| | Was Augustus the destroyer of the Roman Republic, or the man who saved Rome from itself? This essay challenges modern comparisons and argues that Augustus buried a broken system and built a stronger one in its place.
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| | This week, we're going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There's actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we're going to split this treatment over two weeks, talking about Tiberius this week and...
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| | This is a cast of an Augustus portrait from Museo Capitolino inventory MC0495 is in the Ara Pacis Museum. The bust was found in 1889 on Via Merulana in a medieval wall across from SS Marcellino e Pietro and the monastery of San Antonio. Dated between 27 BC and 14 AD, it exemplifies the idealized...
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| For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some 'tribal' peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies.