A tribute to Libertas: The life of Asinius Pollio, a forgotten hero of the Republic
In the previous entry I had the opportunity to analyze the institutional decay of the Roman Republic in the last century BC, and the emergence of a new order, the Principate. It was a convoluted period that saw the demise of one of the finest generations of Roman statesmen and public servants, and the end of the Free State. Under the transition towards the new regime (31 BC-14 AD), Rome regained political stability, economic prosperity and expanded towards new territories. Pe