#roman dictators

[duxfemina]

pick the reason you celebrate Shank a Dictator Day aka the IDEA of March...

you wanna fuck Brutus and/or Cassius

you think Calpurnia deserved better

you ideologically support the Liberators

you ship Antony and Cleopatra and want Julius out of the way

you're a Pompey stan and love the poetic justice of where Caesar died

you would follow Cato to the gates of hell

you actually kinda miss that goofy little dictator guy

Voting ended onMar 22, 2024

*Ides

Damn autocorrect

[duxfemina]

Who puts the dick in dictator?

as in who would you like to stab the most?

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus

Gaius Julius Caesar

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2024

[bloody-romans]

After Caudine Forks consuls often let dictators fight the Samnites while they stayed in Rome, with armies handed from dictator to dictator. Interesting in itself, but also hints the "6 month rule" was a later invention. http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=51

[bloody-romans]

Sometimes we get glimpses of a lifetime in the story of the dictatorship: we met Titus as a youth defending his father, as a war hero earning his nickname, and now holding elections in his old age. http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=50

[bloody-romans]

Coming to a long story like the dictatorship that recedes back into the mist you expect things to become clearer as events proceed closer to the better-documented periods. But people are more certain of their legends than they are of their recent past.http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=49

[bloody-romans]

Some call this one a dupe, since we know nothing about it, he has the same mag.eq. in 314 (what, you never decided you liked working with a guy?), and some idiots read "within 10 years" as "10 years ago". http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=48

[bloody-romans]

M. Aemilius, replacing a vitiated dictator, is explicitly "dictator suffectus" in Livy, paralleling the term used for consuls. Even as dictator, he only got one shot at elections; he couldn't keep trying. http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=47

[bloody-romans]

The image of the humiliated consuls hiding in their houses, not even coming out to hold elections, while all of Rome agonizes and grieves is one of the more palpably emotional moments of Roman history. http://markbwilson.com/php/dictator.php?dictnum=46