Does the story of the Roman Republic’s fall and Julius Caesar’s rise to power have anything to tell us about the world we inhabit today? The BBC and PBS are betting that it does. Their three-part documentary Julius Caesar: the Making of a Dictator sets out to tell this tale with just enough references to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the End of History to keep the viewers’ ears pricked for contemporary resonances. Unwatched democracy gives way to populism, populism ushers in the tyrant. So constitutions fall.
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