1. Augustus
Mussolini and Italian Fascists identified their ideology as being connected to the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar, who was idolised by Italian Fascists.3 They viewed the modern state of Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire and accentuated the need for renovation of Italian culture to 'return to Roman values' because Italian Fascists identified the Roman Empire as an ideal organic and stable society in contrast with contemporary individualistic liberal societies, which they saw as symbolic.4 Whereas German Fascism ideology could not look back at a time of great domination to aspire ...
In What Ways and With What Success Did the Senate Provide a Focus For Opposition to the Emperor? The senate was an institution in Ancient Rome which passed advice to magistrates in the form of 'senatus consulta' under the republic. Eventually, however, the senate became a legislative body and it...