Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship Wilson Mark
Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship Wilson Mark Roman consuls were routinely trained by background and experience to handle the usual problems of a twelve-month turn in office. The…
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Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship Wilson Mark
Roman consuls were routinely trained by background and experience to handle the usual problems of a twelve-month turn in office. The Romans had a mechanism for that: the dictatorship, an alternative emergency executive post that granted total, unanswerable power to that man who was best suited to resolve the crisis and then stand down, restoring normality. But what if a crisis arose that wasn't best met by whoever happened to be in office that year?
Wilson makes the first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of This office was so useful and effective that it was invoked at least 85 times across three centuries against every kind of serious problem, from conspiracies and insurgencies to the repelling of invaders to propitiation of the gods.In Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B.