Welcome to the Ancient World
I am so glad you are here.
I look forward to sharing information and stories that I hope will delight as you accompany me down the paths to discovering intrigues of the ancient world, especially all things Roman.
— Gerardine
— Gerardine
I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world, and to write without any of that over-anxious consideration which may well plague a writer on contemporary life, even if it does not lead him to conceal the truth.
- Livy
Rome, an event which is absolutely without parallel in earlier history.
- Polybius
The Fall of the Roman Republic is a poignant reminder of what happens when a civilisation disregards its foundational beginnings.
Birthed from the eradication of rogue kings in 509 BC, the Republic grew from a noble endeavour to rule her people with oversight via a system of three levels of government - monarchy, aristocracy and democracy.
It was this system which the modern West inherited.
While it worked well for some of the time during the ages, it is now fast completing the cycle that all societies ultimately succumb to - it is decaying from the inside.
The Fall of the Republic ought to be the standard bearer of what to do and not to do for all self-respecting liberal democracies.
