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minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoI mean didn’t this just pave the way for Rome to be ruled by one unaccountable autocrat or another for the next several hundred years?
minus-squareThteven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoYeah but it got better eventually, right? …right?..
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoYeah, Caesar is a bad comparison. Sulla fits better, although at least he was legitimately successful before his coup.
minus-squarenesc@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoIt was worse before autocrats, they were seen as someone better.
I mean didn’t this just pave the way for Rome to be ruled by one unaccountable autocrat or another for the next several hundred years?
Yeah but it got better eventually, right?
…right?..
Yeah, Caesar is a bad comparison. Sulla fits better, although at least he was legitimately successful before his coup.
It was worse before autocrats, they were seen as someone better.