Bribery, corruption, and lack of morals.
Bribery, corruption, and lack of morals.
The greatest Empire ever to walk the earth was built in London, not in Rome. Didn’t last as long though.
Was really surprised to learn that the Romans were essentally nonstop warmongers.
Augustus preserved the forms of the Republic - the Senate, the consuls, the cursus honorum, the civil religious rituals - but his government was an authoritarian monarchy administered by a permanent imperial bureaucracy made up mostly of freed slaves. A lot like us now.
bad headline. he married livia drusilla, who then engineered tiberius becoming the prince rather than germanicus (who she had poisoned later).