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minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 days agoI mean didn’t this just pave the way for Rome to be ruled by one unaccountable autocrat or another for the next several hundred years?
minus-squareThteven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 days agoYeah but it got better eventually, right? …right?..
minus-squarecygnuslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoYeah, Caesar is a bad comparison. Sulla fits better, although at least he was legitimately successful before his coup.
minus-squarenesc@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoIt was worse before autocrats, they were seen as someone better.
I mean didn’t this just pave the way for Rome to be ruled by one unaccountable autocrat or another for the next several hundred years?
Yeah but it got better eventually, right?
…right?..
Yeah, Caesar is a bad comparison. Sulla fits better, although at least he was legitimately successful before his coup.
It was worse before autocrats, they were seen as someone better.