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Happy (?) Napoleon's deathday to those who celebrate.* For those who are curious about what I think about Napoleon (since I do talk about him and the Napoleonic era quite a bit), here is a thread that contains most of my thoughts about Napoleon.https://twitter.com/JasonLHughes/status/1294778653960626178 …
Really good thread. As a classicist, I view Napoleon much like I view Alexander - he was exceptionally good at killing and honestly not a whole lot else, though Napoleon was the better of the two at governing. What you think of him ought to depend on how much you value killing.
Verdicts on both men thus, I think, often tell me more about the judge than the historical figure.
I agree with the comparison (though as you said, Napoleon was better at governing). People have an odd tendency to equate people who are good at killing to people who are worthy of admiration and emulation.
On the flip-side, you have truly difficult figures like Octavian. Ruthless and violent during the civil wars, but then a capable, even generous and careful administrator of the empire. Look one way and you want to burn him in effigy, the other way and he deserves statues.
I think it’s hard not to admire, at least to some degree someone who was so *impactful*. In many ways, the 19th and even 20th ce. are history in the wake of Napoleon, just as the Diadochi period was history in the wake of Alexander. He just changed everything
I dunno, Hitler and Stalin were both very impactful and 'changed everything' - just not for the better. I tend to judge rulers by weighing their positive and negative impacts against each other and making a decision on the net. Alexander's net seems negative to me.
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