I think the parallels between #Trump and #Caligula are remarkable. Sociopathic, narcissistic god-wannabes who built golden statues of themselves and expected people to worship them. Unfortunately for Caligula, he came to an "untimely" end. There's a lesson to be learned in there somewhere for the American empire. #GOP #us #politics #RomanEmpire

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Head of the Emperor Caligula

A collections highlight record Head of the Emperor Caligula

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington https://taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trump-und-Co/!6177175

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… Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

#Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula

Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington

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"Here is the brother of the great conqueror Germanicus!"

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
 
[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

Accius - Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)] | WIST Quotations

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. [Óderint, dum métuant.] A fragment from Accius' work, known only by its quotation by others. The phrase was often used by classical writers as a hallmark of a tyrannical ruler. This includes: Cicero, Pro Sestio, 48/102 (where he regrets that…

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@rbreich keizer #caligula, was #crazy #cruel and #fickle. In the end he was killed by his own #guard. How much #insane #trump has to become before his own #protectors put an end to it and help him out of his (and our) #misery ?
#MissKittyRaw The United States regime, & it can't be called a government anymore, is a total murderous regime w/ so many complicit that just refuse to honor anything that looks like morality, has descended below #Caligula. Into the very depths of hell. And brought it forth to us all. Where to run?
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Caligula.

(Lady Lever Art Gallery, Birkenhead)

#caligula #bust #emperor #birkenhead