[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Oh to the contrary, the Romans incorporated the chicanery into the standing
> government. Poisonings, back alley stabbings, incestuous marriages and most
> every immaginable vice and aberration took place during the many years that the
> Roman Republic was in existence. When the Republic was replaced with a Tyranny,
> it only spun up. Madness and gluttony were the order of the day, bread and
> circuses ( gut spilling, animal slaughtering, combat spectacles were offered ).
> There were no flying Wallendas. The only flying was done by eagles trained to
> attack bound naked victims. Yeah, much to admire and emulate there.
build an utopia that lasts 1/10th of the time the roman republic did
(even when not counting its successor, the roman empire).
on the other side, scholars with seemingly much more direct knowledge
disagree heavily with you. read any machiavelli lately?
