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Showing posts with label Augustus. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

27 BC. The Roman Republic Ends.

The Roman Senate, suspending its duties, bestowed the title Augustus on Gaius Octavius, the posthumously adopted son of his uncle, Gaius Julius Caesar, and the Roman Republic ended.

You don't get democracy back on its own, once it's surrendered to a strongman.  There's a lesson in there.