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
https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-collection/highlights/GR1111937
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…
"Here is the brother of the great conqueror Germanicus!"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025741/here-is-the-brother-of-the-great-conqueror-germanicus
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
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…
Today's poem:
The Last Rational Man
- by Margaret Atwood
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/812063220952121344/the-last-rational-man?source=share
#caligula #emperor #senator #rationality #dignity #integrity #MargaretAtwood
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Caligula.
(Lady Lever Art Gallery, Birkenhead)
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