Patrick Wyman
Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. The Pursuit of Dadliness. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. pwymanusc at gmail.
Joined
October 2023
I’m begging you to look past Cicero’s tightly crafted self-image to see a guy who was already among the richest group of people on the planet giving speeches and loudly proclaiming his importance as someone who wasn’t self made.
Not a special fan of Cicero but why would he be across modern ideas of taxation? He did excel in areas that were relevant then: oratory, law, politicking. And we can't tag him a failson given he came from the equestrian order and worked his way up. Fair to say he was immensely gifted, whatever else
