In his De Caesaribus, the historian Aurelius Victor drew a comparison between the emperor Diocletian and the Republican general and consul Marius: two ambitious individuals from humble backgrounds who ...
In May 1781, a cantankerous John Adams, still smarting after his public falling-out with Benjamin Franklin and humiliating ejection from the French court, sat down to write a stern letter to his ...
In Stuart and early Hanoverian England, Sallust's work was drawn upon in diametrically opposed ways. On the one hand, authoritarian governments using extreme measures to repress jacobite rebellion ...
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