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Oct 2023
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Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerb...

David Runciman
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This week David asks Mary Beard what the Roman Empire can tell us about the nature of unaccountable power, then and now. How did Roman emperors rule when they had so little knowledge of the lives of their subjects? Can absolute personal power ever escape the limits of biology, from sex to death? And who are the modern-day equivalent of the Caesars: democrati ... Show More
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