Episode CLXXV - The Murder of Pedanius Secundus
Emperors of Rome
What Is the Legal Argument?
Tacitus tells us that the only way to control slaves is through terror. He invokes slavery as a metaphor for the idea of servile senate and unbounded submission. Tacitus often describes other kinds of political tyranny when he thinks back to his favorite claudioian julians, says Ray O'Neill.
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