🪷 1 March 86 BC #Sulla subjugates Athens and on 5 July 86 BC stages a military parade through streets lined with weeping Athenians, who forevermore despised Rome's undemocratic rule. Civilization has never recovered from the fall of Hellenistic ideals. Art: #RaffaeleCaruso. 🪷
#Sulla
When the Roman Republic was in its final century, civil wars were common, and so were proscriptions.
Words mean things.
I don’t make the rules.
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Outmazi
#SciFi #Psychohistory #Asimov
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...a marxist to a free-marketeer within weeks by one of his professors, a founder of the #ChicagoSchool.
For decades, he has been one of the key Republican scientific cornerstones that paved the way for #RonaldReagan and ultimately #TFG.
How would #UShistory be different w/o these two impactful presidents?
This is but one example. I didn't pick an emperor like # #Augustus or a dictator like #Sulla, #Hitler, #Stalin or #Putler...
I can't find who recommended an episode of the podcast "Subject to Change" about #RomanHistory, #Sulla and #Caesar but I am delighted! The Sulla episode wonderfully interesting but I was also delighted by the episode titled Mother Leakey and the Bishop where one relatively unimportant family's issues in 1630 had an affect on history over the next 100 years. Great stuff, in no small part because of the discussion of the process of discovery.
146 BCE - 1204 CE - This is the story of the Balkan Peninsula from its post Classical Greek and Hellenistic period when it was conquered by the Roman Republic, through to the defeat of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins of the Fourth Crusade.
#roman #greece #sulla #augustus #achaea #juliuscaesar #nero #olympicgames #christianity #byzantine #constantinople
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I agree with everything you say, including "consequences." Oh, getting his fav toys taken away, smashed even, will drive him insane. His biz reputation torn to pieces? Maybe even worse.
If he hadn't been #POTUS, I'd be happy about the likely outcome.
But him currently being the most likely next Pres in 2025...no deal. Maximum punishment.
He will be behaving like Dictator #Sulla, if he gets re-elected, puny, vindictive but without...
@Snowshadow
Yes 😀
I prefer to call him #Putler *, though.
There are quite some parallels.
The most important one is hopefully imminent:
It did not end well for Adolf...as it hardly ever does for dictators who've outlived their usefulness. 😏
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putler
The really intelligent ones, like the #Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, (#Sulla) step down in time:
What have plebeian tribunes under Lucius Cornelius Sulla to do with trains moving through rural Eastern German landscapes? I will answer that ever burning question in my latest poem.
Vandaag het eerste deel van de biografie van #Sulla, de conservatieve Romeinse politicus die de Eerste Burgeroorlog ontketende. Historische visies veranderen gelukkig, zeker ook die op de beruchte proscripties, waarover morgen meer.
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2023/07/21/lucius-cornelius-sulla-1/
They want to make Sulla’s Proscriptions Great Again…meanwhile, the American Catiline still lives.
@mlabowicz @Green_Footballs oh man, the irony of #crassus thinking he is #sulla resulting in all his bros getting demolished by parthian shots is exquisite.
@Green_Footballs 🥥 Perhaps instead of getting a modern #Sulla we just need to get rid of a modern #Elon. 🥥
If my assumption is true, which I have no reason to doubt, this would be his get-out-of-jail card, yes.
A serious flaw in the #US Constitution.
It's been a longer time that I focused on it, but in the #RomanRepublic, that would not have been possible. They always had a counterbalance, e.g. a 2nd #consul, other #triumvirs, other #tribunes, etc. Where it went wrong: #dictator (#Sulla), but a #POTUS isn’t that.
Now, it is too late to fix that.
#TFG mustn't win
@Teri_Kanefield
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This could be solved relatively easily.
Back to the roots:
In the #RomanRepublic, elected state officials were only shielded from lawsuits while they held "#imperium."
After their service ended, they were fair game for prosecution.
Sounds bad?
No, not quite so: this served as a very important corrective before #Dictator #Sulla's rule, as all officials knew that their power was temporal and temporary.
Another safeguard:..
Been sick all week. But I managed to finish reading Mike Duncan’s Storm Before the Storm. It’s a fascinating look at the troubles of the end of the Roman Republic. The violent breakdown of the government process and rise of populist leaders and factionalism.
A good read. Highly recommended.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ed28b215-ee17-4a80-87e0-c039a5d49141
#History #Rome #RomanRepublic #Sulla #MikeDuncan #HistoryOfRome
In 88 BCE, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BCE) marched on Rome and entered the city's sacred inner boundary, the pomerium , bearing arms. Breaking this taboo, he sought to gain political power and control of the army of the East that had been offered to his enemy, Gaius Marius (c. 157-86 BCE). A second march occurred in 83-82 BCE when he assumed the title of dictator. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2146/sullas-march-on-rome/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #Sulla #SocialWar #RomanRepublic
BRASILE – Il videografo registra le luci misteriose viste dai piloti sulla Costa Gaúcha #10Novembre #alieni #Brasile #costa #dai #Gaúcha #luci #misteriose #piloti #registra #sulla #videografo #viste https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbGllbmltaXN0ZXJvLmFsdGVydmlzdGEub3JnL2JyYXNpbGUtaWwtdmlkZW9ncmFmby1yZWdpc3RyYS1sZS1sdWNpLW1pc3Rlcmlvc2UtdmlzdGUtZGFpLXBpbG90aS1zdWxsYS1jb3N0YS1nYXVjaGEv.html
A student favorite among the horror was an anecdote I shared from #plutarch (life of sulla §13) in which a cavorting #sulla sends an amount of pepper instead of grain, which was requested by a starving Athenian population under his siege (87/6 BCE). #greek pun not withstanding (purós, -oû “wheat” vs. pûr, purós “fire”), the cruelty of the joke amounts to “you want to eat? Here’s some treasure—eat that [knowing full well that it will burn on the way down]” #histodons #classics #romanhistory
Students in my #romanhistory class were horrified by #sulla but they questioned whether he was really as bad as the #ancient #historians say. I replied that the #historiography paints a specific sort of megalomania; he’s someone who thought he was smarter than everyone, who comes in a breaks something he’s “saving” all in the name of a personal quest for power. Couldn’t help but say “reminds me of someone…” (over yonder on the bird site) #histodons #classics #twittermigration
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