The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Nietzsche talks about this in Twilight of the Idols and Athenian, please like come in at any point here. He says it's a degeneration of the high point of Greek civilization when the strong like warrior men were no longer able to assert their control. The rise of the merchant class are people who start to have political control because they have money only due to trade.

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