#listen man I also have a crush on scipio africanus but I just don’t think you can say definitively that he never thought about monarchy

[p-clodius-pulcher]

I really love it when in biographies the author takes a chapter to discuss their sources and the accuracies and biases these sources inject into the material and how everything has to be analyzed with reference to other contemporary and later historical records

And then they clearly have a crush on the subject of the biography anyways rendering their depiction also biased

It’s really beautiful