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‘No kings!’: like the LA protesters, the early Romans hated kings, too
No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated.
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Intact Roman pot discovered for first time in Ireland, reveals ancient trade relations
An extraordinary discovery of a Roman pot was made at the Drumanagh promontory fort in Ireland, the first ever found. The unbelievable apparition of a Roman pot at Drumanagh in County Dublin left ...
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How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent
Yet well-intentioned legislative measures can become corrupted through time and the demands of political expediency. In 121 BCE, facing a populist uprising from Gaius Gracchus, the Roman Senate ...
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Which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump?
He was a military leader and politician when the Roman Republic was in its death throes. While Trump has no military experience, some have compared him with Caesar. English classicist Mary Beard ...
The Atlantic2mon
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end ...
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The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning ...
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The Roman Empire Loved by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon Never Existed
In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Detectorist finds hoard of Roman silver coins
The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina, and were found at Barton Bendish, Norfolk. Coin specialist Adrian Marsden said the loss might ...
Wall Street Journal4mon
‘Lawless Republic’ Review: A Society in Decay
Cicero’s ringing words have been taken to mean that legal systems break down when violence holds sway—seemingly a critique of his troubled, turbulent era, the late Roman Republic. In context ...
Fast Company4mon
What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
It was during the period of the French Revolution that the gesture was invented by revolutionary republicans who framed their politics as a revival of the Roman republic. The best example of this ...
New York Post6mon
Largest collection of Roman coins ever found called ‘the most miraculous’ discovery in ‘the last 100 years’
Most of the coins are silver denarii, minted in Rome and dating from the time of the Roman Republic in 157 BC up to Nero’s reign between AD 54 and AD 68. The Worcestershire Conquest Hoard is one ...