"Rome wasn’t brought down by the decadence of Nero and Caligula but by the shift of power to what is..."

“Rome wasn’t brought down by the decadence of Nero and Caligula but by the shift of power to what is now Istanbul centuries later. The Hegsethian heroes described by Homer either destroyed their own society (a reading perfectly consistent with the endings of the Iliad and Odyssey) or were brought down by their failure to manage the economy and the environment.” - The Odyssey and the Bronze Age…