Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Peter Ertel from the Facebook group assk, Alternative history is fraught with difficulty, exceeding predicting the future. However, if Cesar hadn’t become dictator-for-life, any guesses how Rome might have evolved from there?

My guess, and it is nothing more than a guess, is that Rome would have eventually wound up with some sort of imperial system of government at some point.

The republic was on thin ice when Caesar won the civil war. If it wasn’t him, within the next century, someone would have probably made a move to consolidate power.

The legions had shifted their loyalty from the Republic to their generals.

This is one of the reasons why another civil war happened after Caesar was assassinated.

In such an environment, I think it would just be a matter of time before someone took an army to seize power.