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Fr Thomas Plant's avatar

Yes! Subset of kings?

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Eliot Wilson's avatar

Very thoughtful and interesting. To step outside the Christian tradition for a moment, for Rome, of course, the institution of king does become bad per se (and Caesar is, famously, thrice offered the crown); even when what we categorise as a monarchy comes about under Octavian, it is hedged about with non-royal language (“imperator”, “princeps”). But the shift to the East perhaps eases the internal conflict, and once you are happily using “basileus” then the Republic seems a very long way away, chronologically, geographically and ideologically.

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