Status Updates From Brutus: The Noble Conspirator

Sulla’s legislation has been broken down or reformed in decade of Brutus’ dictatorship.

Rome never was a democratic city state, nor it was oligarchic. But the “nobiles” used their popularity as a force to get power and influence.

They would use crowds and meetings as a bid to support the votes on legislation.

Brutus had a very strong and stubborn persona, he was also smart since his childhood was placed in a turbulent period of Romes history because he lived when the first civil war took place in the res publica of Sulla.

And in Brutus early years, he only took influence from Servilla, his mother.

Brutus studied politics and model speeches to be a “defender of old fashioned roman values”

Marcus Junius Brutus they could literally never get me to hate you

There's an art to writing the unknown in history. This book has an uncertainty that gets very neurotic and annoying very quickly. Everywhere you turn, he could have thought x, y, and z but we will never know. There's a way to write this successfully, painting the unknown without too much speculation. Idk I find it a bit irritating. I left it behind on a trip.

too careful to be interesting