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The past is very often a brutal place! We live in deeply imperfect times in the modern day, and should not be satisfied with the flaws our societies have now, but it's good to reflect every once in a while how far we've come.
True (even though some try with all their might to turn back to the "great old times").
Make SPQR Magna Again!
Get out of here Caligula
Combover Caligula
God-damn, as an American, that just killed the humor vibe right there. :(
Don't worry, Caligula didn't win in the end.
Yes, but everybody lost :(
Caligula was succeeded by Claudius, whose reign was noble and fair. The golden age of the Five Good Emperors was yet to come. It ain't over until we stop fighting. o7
For the rich you mean? Probably wasn't much different for commoners and slaves.
Claudius opened up citizenship to the majority of the population of the Empire, granted slaves some of their first rights under Roman law, exempted hard-pressed local communities from taxes, built massive amounts of infrastructure for the usage of the public, repealed taxes on food, stabilized the grain supply to the city of Rome, expanded the Imperial bureaucracy of freedmen, and actually executed a large number of the wealthy elite for their plotting.
Wow Claudius sounds cool indeed.
Many of us live like the kings of the medieval era. Only the other day I cleaned my arse with a goose.
I have no idea what to do with this comment.
Order a chicken next time you go out to eat and pretend you're King Richard the Lionheart about to be captured for eating too good while undercover.
Chicken was a not-uncommon meat for commoners, but still expensive enough so that if some traveler (who SHOULD be saving their money carefully) comes into a local tavern which wasn't planned on cooking any chickens today and says "Slaughter me, and me specifically, a chicken", he's clearly got money to spare.
Was the goose upset?