Mortal republic : how Rome fell into tyranny /
In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and threatened to burn them alive if they did not make Augustus dictator. Why did Rome, to this day one of the world's longest-lived republics, exchange freedo...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Autocratic freedom
- The new world order
- Empire and inequality
- The politics of frustration
- The rise of the outsider
- The republic breaks
- Rebuilding amidst the wreckage
- The republic of the mediocre
- Stumbling towards dictatorship
- The birth and death of Caesar's republic
- The republic of Octavian
- Choosing Augustan liberty.