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Historian Barry Strauss on the Rise and Fall of Nations | It’s Good That You’re Scared

The Daily Stoic

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Is There a Male Heir in the Roman Empire?

The Roman Empire had no male heirs for 200 years. Octavian was adopted by his great uncle, who didn't have a son and heir. The romans are cool with adoption from early on; it's not something they invent for the empire. Also, they have bad luck: octavian has one birth child, his daughter, and she has a lot of kids,. so he thinks, i'm cool, and he adopts two of them as two of his grandsons, as his own.

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