A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Lessons from Decline and Fall of Roman Empire
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Presentation on Saturday August 2nd at 5:00 PM CT
A Republic, If You Can Keep It:
Useful Lessons from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic
College of Complexes, weekly free speech forum
Meetings # 3,829 - John Engle
Description:
Few civilizations in history have earned more attention than ancient Rome. The very thought of it conjures images of the emperors whose portraits and statuary fill museums and whose reigns have provided endless fodder for film, television, and popular histories. Yet the story of Rome began nearly seven hundred years before the first emperor was born. Unfortunately, modern audiences tend to be rather hazy about the details of this pre-imperial period. All too often, Rome’s centuries-long history before the emperors is treated as little more than a prelude to the real action. This presentation aims to correct this error by shining a light on the Rome that came before, the Roman Republic (from res publica, “the public thing” or “commonwealth”), a Rome that was not ruled by a single man with absolute power, but rather governed by elected magistrates and democratic assemblies of citizens. It will explore how history's first true republic came to be, how it grew to be a world superpower, how its republican system gave way to tyrannical one-man rule—and what its contemporary successor, the American Republic, can do to avoid a similar fate.
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Lessons from Decline and Fall of Roman Empire