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Emma Southon

@emmasouthon.bsky.social

Roman Historian

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Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hi my name is Mark Zuckerberg I am obsessed with Augustus to the point of copying his hair and I somehow don’t know that Augustus created the Roman standing army and curbed armed imperial expansion

unyut surt ur way, avout mstury. "I think in some ways, he was seen as sort of brutal," he says of Augustus. "But to me, the most important contribution he made was basically teaching society that you didn't have to always be at war. Before Augustus, the definition of peace was the temporary period of time during which your enemies were subdued before you had to defeat them again. Maybe there is some truth to that in the grand scheme of things. But he had to rewire the economy to, instead of having this massive standing army, to convince people that they could build things, and that having this trade- based economy rather than a pillage- based economy was going to be a positive- sum thing. And it worked to some degree.""They did also need to keep on expanding the empire," he qualifies, with due understatement; Augustus having also established peace through a monopoly on force and an end to political liberty. "All these things sort of worked as a theory, but then with other rulers down the line, they weren't as committed to it, or it wasn't fully sustainable. But I thought that was a very important contribution. It's partially why the Augustus thing resonates with me a lot. It's this evolution where you're not physically endangering people. There's this set of rights that everyone has, but you can have this intellectual sparring and debate that pushes the world forward in a way that is much more net positive without a lot of the downsides, where the people are not literally going to war and killing each other.”
Jakub Jaraczewski@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4w ago

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.

Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At a metal festival and just spent five mins staring a bloke trying to work out where I knew him from. A band? Previous gigs? A bar? nope. He is one of the carpenters on Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Above all I just want my students to enjoy the process of experiencing a 7am hunt through several secondary sources (including one mis-titled) just to find the original text of something apparently funny said by Abraham Lincoln about the printing press.