the fall of the Roman Republic or Empire is fascinating, yes, but more fascinating to me is the rise of the Republic AND you can only really understand the fall, anyway, if you understand what made it succeed first...
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Agreed. Also, Augustus is more fascinating than almost all the other emperors put together.
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Oh, both of those things, too.
His various issues with family and heirs were something to behold.
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And, of course, if there is no Caesar, there is no Augustus... And it's interesting that people who could probably have ended the Republic before Augustus didn't: Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Pompey
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not sure he could have. As lionized as he was, I'm not sure the troops would have followed him against Rome. There's a corruption necessary first.
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still fascinating. We know so much about the period of Rome's fall to Empire, but there are entire centuries we know little about. If there's reincarnation, reading about the fall of the Capitalist world will be great, too.
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archeologists from the next sentient race, risen from Otterdom "an entire strata of plastic and carbon, well, everyone knows monkeys are stupid."
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