• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, they outright began using the term ‘basileus’ and even the dreaded Latin ‘rex’, with emphasis on Emperors who were biological children of the previous Emperors.

    Still a lot of civil wars and coups though. No amount of monarchy can erase THAT particular Roman tradition.

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      Still a lot of civil wars and coups though. No amount of monarchy can erase THAT particular Roman tradition.

      I think all of agricultural humanity has to own that one collectively. Not that one family which reigns unopposed forever would be better.