In the Julius Caesar’s life, many women played a very important role. But historians do not judge in the same way their influence.
The satraps are people who have much power
In some contexts the word “satrap” has a pejorative meaning, negative, derived from the great power than such position had in ancient Persia.
The first text of political thought is also provided to us by Herodotus
The ancient Greeks theorized about the various political systems: monarchy, democracy, tyranny
The post or post service
The word “post”, with very few changes, refers to the post service in many countries in the world; its creation is very old.
The Roman state helps the starving citizens with the “annona”
The reality of Rome is much sadder than the topic of the gargantuan feast, which is the result of a literary creativity that always pays attention to the exceptional and anecdotal instead of the ordinary and prosaic: thousands of hungry citizens.