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This week on the blog: A fireside chat discussing the difference between monarchy (or kingship) and tyranny and how that should condition our expectations for modern authoritarian systems:https://acoup.blog/2021/07/09/fireside-friday-july-9-2021/ …
The distinction between kingship (customary (or constitutional) and limited by those customs, but also generally long-lasting) and tyranny (extra-constitutional and less limited, but also highly unstable) is a distinction that I think remains valid to the present.
And don't miss the fireside book recommendation, which is @GabrielDBaker , Spare No One: Mass Violence in Roman Warfare (2021) - a valuable (if grim) book on a topic which has long been wanting and a useful antidote to overly sanitized accounts of ancient warfare besides!
Also, in case anyone missed it, modest changes to the ACOUP Patreon: a new tier 'patres et matres conscripti' has been added. They get all of the same things as the amici, but also get to suggest/vote for questions and topics to appear on the blog.https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20122096
And don't worry, we'll be back to The Queen's Latin (Part III) next week!
There is no such thing as one man rule. A bunch of people decide that such and such person or persons represents their own beliefs about how things should go. It's a committee and a significant portion of the population (a third?) that decides how things should go.
Why did Latin retain the word "Rex" despite almost 1000 years without a king in the roman world, from Tarquin to Odoacer. Are there connotations of foreignness?
Yes - Reges end up as things other people have, even after Rome goes back to a monarchy.
Sorry this is the first time I saw this photo of you and this is the most badass supervillain shit ever.
LOL - I do these for just about every fireside, though this one is cropped differently and I suppose taking the picture reading SPARE NO ONE does have a pretty awesome supervillian vibe. Though there was also this one:pic.twitter.com/9H6DrdJl9Q
Your tyranny/monarchy distinction and discussion of how every tyrant wants to make his heirs monarchs immediately brings to mind North Korea, where we are actually seeing this transition in real time.
Also, a question: are successful tyranny-to-monarchy transitions usually characterized by deification (in part or in full) of the ruling dynasty? It happened in Rome and North Korea that way, after all.
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