Quand Rome inventait le populisme. Egypte «Le monde est en transition

«Le monde est en transition

hieratic and demotic

following the discovery of America in 1492

wealthy and recognized by their fellow citizens

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Quand Rome inventait le populisme. Egypte «Le monde est en transitionThere's something of Cicero in Emmanuel Macron, and something of Clodius in Donald Trump. It is as a historian of Antiquity that Raphal Doan demonstrates that we did not invent populism. The Romans, at the end of the Republic, experienced a life and death struggle between what they called the populares and the optimates. Appeal to the people, a taste for radical solutions, recourse to the figure of the strong man: these tribunes in togas and sandals