Christine Johnson"The narrative of decline allowed politicians throughout Rome’s history to claim that Rome simultaneously was the greatest civilization on Earth and was in the sort of grave political crisis that required extraordinary and often unconstitutional political intervention. It suggested there was something special, something intrinsically superior, about Rome’s character that was doubly under threat, the argument ran — from a decline in the number of Romans and a vanishing culture of singular Roman virtue — and that the only hope of its restoration rested on the emergence of a strong leader to reset Rome’s course."
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Kevin Russell