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331 - Julius Caesar: Roman Daddy Dictator

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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Basic Citizenship - The Roman Republic

The word patrician comes from the Latin Patris, meaning fathers and these daddies and their families. The patricians were the group of ruling class families in ancient Rome think British aristocrats and nobles. By Caesar's time though, being a male citizen no longer meant you had to fight. You could be a businessman, politician, sandal polisher, toga stain remover, little Caesar's pizza franchise on or whatever. Shortly before the Republic fell by Julius Caesar's time, there was so few patricians left that special law was made for the enrollment of new patricians.

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