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Written by Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman on 2025-01-31 at 22:54

A striking phrase from Brett Deveraux this week writing about the Gracchi:

" ancient tyrants did not demolish the apparatus of the state and declare themselves kings. Instead they subverted the state to run its affairs extra-constitutionally: the courts still functioned, the assemblies still met, councils still voted but one man controlled everything through a web of cronies, clients and the threat of force. "

I don't think he meant this, in context, as any kind of metacommentary on world events right now. But.

https://acoup.blog/2025/01/31/collections-on-the-gracchi-part-ii-gaius-gracchus/

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Written by Isaac Freeman on 2025-02-01 at 20:01

@stephen I don't know whether it's shade on current world events, but it's definitely shade on the Caesars.

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