"The ides of March are come.""Aye, Caesar, but not gone." A day to remember the fine republican tradition of disposing of an excellent leader who knows how to serve the common good on the grounds that you need to preserve the procedures that no one really follows anyway.
Rome
Songs at the Heights of Empire
In 17 B.C., having brought peace and prosperity to the whole Roman Empire after centuries of non-stop war, revolution, and upheaval, having, indeed, brought peace to the Mediterranean world for the first time since man began to live there, Caesar Augustus decreed the holding of the Secular Games: six days of athletics, entertainment, and religious … Continue reading Songs at the Heights of Empire