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Just downloaded the awesome audiobook Mike Duncan’s “The Storm Before the Storm”. A brilliant book about the reasons the Roman Republic fell and autocracy emerged. It’s pretty prescient of our times.
https://www.shortform.com/best-books/book/the-storm-before-the-storm-book-reviews-mike-duncan
@evamarie I need to actually read I, Claudius.
@evamarie this is my current listen. I put the Rome book on my wish list for when my new credit comes in. #cosobooks
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Wasn't the Roman Empire always autocratic? Onle the Senators got to vote in the next emporer, & god only knows who voted for the Senators. If it was the citizens, it was only the wealthy citizens.
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I really like talking to people like you who insist upon educating themselves and learning whatever they can.