Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Rubicon

I finished the above by Tom Holland today at lunch. A (near)Footean examination of the short-lived Roman Republic, the text has flourishes of prose but it is the titanic visiage of the people themselves which carry the text.

It also appears that in the aftermath of the Republic it was Augustus who served as the origins of Conservatism, welding self-interest with tradtional ideals onto the unwashed.

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