Today's poem:

The Story of Augustus who would not have any Soup

- by Heinrich Hoffman

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/721742015448137728/the-story-of-augustus-who-would-not-have-any-soup?source=share

#poetry #humour #augustus #food #soup #HeinrichHoffman #MoralFable

Ich habe mal einen meiner ältesten Artikel auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.

Es geht um #StarWars und das #RömischeReich, besonders aber um #Augustus und #Palpatine

https://fantastischeantike.de/star-wars-imperator-palpatine-und-octavian-augustus/

Well, what do you know? I'm in print!

https://antigonejournal.com/2022/11/favourite-classics/

#antigone #classics #history #Damian'sWriting #Augustus #Luke'sGospel #nativity

Kitty pretzel! #kittens #mainecoon #ragdoll #Augustus #Lucius

@natecull In the grander scheme of things, I'm finding it interesting that representational politics seems to have a profound tendency (dating to Roman times, literally) of dividing into parties of Capital and Labour.

Employers and HR department, as you note.

"Capital" was initially: land and oligarchical access to government as in the hereditary role of Roman senators, since the Industrial Revolution, capital, finance, and distributional networks.

"Labour" in Roman times were the populares, the non-slave working class and most of the Roman colonies.

The swing voters were the equites, which included what we'd call the professional, skilled trades, merchants, and business classes. Their allegiances varied between the optimates and populares depending on political circumstances.

I think I've pointed out A.H.M. Jones's Augustus and its introductory paragraphs before. Realising that the political battle lines were drawn over 2,000 years ago was something of an insight:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6i2h0e/ahm_jones_augustus_the_breakdown_of_the_republic/

#AHMJones #Augustus #optimates #populares #equites #politics #capital #labour

@sir And it always has been. A.H.M. Jones, Augustus (1970):

... It was the agrarian problem that sparked off the violence that was ultimately to destroy the Republic. Tiberius Gracchus' bill [Lex Sempronia Agraria, Ed], enacted in 133 B.C. for distributing the public land, after leaving a generous allowance to the occupiers, in small lots to poor citizens, excited such furious resistance among the senatorial landowners that a group of them lynched Gracchus. This was the first in a series of violent clashes between two groups who called themselves the optimates and the populares. ...

Five more paragraphs at the link, read it, it's that damned relevant.

The societal groups, actions, and political platforms read directly from current headlines. Law, order, religion, and honoring debts, by the wealthy. Living wage, bankruptcy reform, justice reform, and expanded electoral franchise by the poor.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6i2h0e/ahm_jones_augustus_the_breakdown_of_the_republic/

#Augustus