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Tag: Ancient Rome

  • The Ancient Agonies of the Unelected OverLords

    They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine what their Mother went through. What feelings would have washed the womb of the infants, when the Royal Mother knew that her babies would be murdered at birth by her uncle? The Palace servants were ordered to drown […]

  • Crassus: Financier and War Profiteer

    We find that you Romans have not got very good memories about the terms of treaties. — Parthian general Surena, upon confronting Crassus and his invading legions.1 Who was Marcus Licinius Crassus (ca. 112-53 BCE )?  Like a modern-day financier, he was a predatory (usurious) lender; like a modern-day oligarch, he acquired vast real-estate holdings […]

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