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Ayat • 3 cards
Son maître préféré, dit l'HistoireAuguste 24, était Junius Rusticus pour lequel il avait beaucoup de respect et dont il était le disciple. Ce Rusticus était aussi efficace dans la guerre que dans la paix et il était un grand praticien du mode de vie stoïcien. Marc Aurèle le consultait sur toutes les affaires publiques ou privées. Il
Pierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
The message is clear. It was an axiom of the Augustan regime that the emperor paraded his generosity to the ordinary people of the city of Rome and that they in turn were to look to him as their patron, protector and benefactor.
Mary Beard • SPQR
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baja • 4 cards
CHAPTER 10 · FOURTEEN EMPERORS The men on the throne
Mary Beard • SPQR
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baja • 50 cards
O poder reside no nexo entre os canais de informação. Como Tibério permitiu que os canais de informação fluíssem para a pessoa de Sejano, este se tornou o verdadeiro centro do poder, enquanto Tibério se reduziu a um fantoche.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: Uma breve história das redes de informação, da Idade da Pedra à inteligência artificial (Portuguese Edition)
Augustus was Rome’s most skillful cultivator. Having navigated himself into unchallenged authority, he used it to turn a failing republic—as if it were a Virgilian vine—into an empire that flourishes, in more ways than most of us realize, even now. Plants aren’t aware that they’re being made to mature in a certain way, but if firmly rooted and care
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Leilani Kritzinger • 3 cards