#*again. we are working with allegory and pop culture reception a bit here. it's nero in literary memory not nero in actual history
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2025's ides of march illustration!
I've been doing one a year since the 2022 presidential election*, so. you know! keeping up with the thematic tradition. sometimes politicians compare themselves to caesar crossing the rubicon and you just gotta. process that. do an annual re read of a bunch of different literature that use the ides as their stage. go through commentary on dante's divine comedy. watch a production of julius caesar. for unrelated reasons, ofc.
(*other countries besides america have elections)
it's also funny how people will debate whether or not the optimates/conspirators/whatever were ungrateful assholes in my inbox whenever I post one of these, like the ides of march hasn't been a well established narrative that people have been using to explore other stuff for centuries. take it to an academic conference! we have empire and autocracy and absolutely batshit press conferences to discuss!!
and as always, some reading material! for fun and whimsy. for more on brutus as an established allegorical figure:
The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, Mafredi Piccolomini
and on roman conspiracies narratives
Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, V.E. Pagan
#the election was called in may but i was doing it in march because i was pissed as hell that we let the son of a dictator back in power#its also so annoying how people on twitter assume this is commentary on america. arm chair twitter historians shut up challenge#this also doesn't matter that much either way but my god. the misplaced pedantry.#like. if it was america the person meeting his fate would be nero. god forbid other countries exist#*again. we are working with allegory and pop culture reception a bit here. it's nero in literary memory not nero in actual history#beware! the ides of march!#one time someone tried to tell me that caesar was a socialist and its like. no. that's wrong but also. rome's economy was slave#based. like many an empire. required exploitation. also you may be looking for the gracchi brothers. not caesar
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