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The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Tom Holland recommends it
This again is an absolute classic which is completely informed by Tacitus. It has that very mordant take on the way that power works and operates.

on fivebooks.com · 13 Sep 2011

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

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