Read about the often ignored history between the fall of Alexander the Great and the rise of Caesar
Roman Values & Ancestor Veneration
Polybius sought to understand what led the Roman Republic to conquer most civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean sea within a single lifetime. Economic organization, constitutional government, contemporary geopolitics, and luck all had their role in Roman conquest. Still, below, we explore Roman values to understand its unique culture of public ambition better.1 The most significant values…
Livy’s Counterfactual: Would Rome defeat Alexander?
To Livy, a Roman historian living at the end of the 1st Century BCE, it would have been impossible to deny the weight of fortune that had, in a few hundred years, propelled Rome to ascendency in the Mediterranean. The Romans were hegemons over the successors of Alexander, the marauding Gauls, and all other manners…
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Alexander to Caesar, The Rise of Rome 