Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Roman Empire and Tyranny
There's a huge kind of chinese box effect of people using the emperor to explain things that they don't otherwise understand. And if you cand of go through this and take all the boxes out, andyou come to the middle, there's this awful sense that ter might be nothing there. So kind of tyranny, which is so vividly summed up by roman writers and modern writers and might all be smoke an mirrors.
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