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A data report applying the Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA) framework to Julius Caesar — scored from primary sources, compared against Mao, Xi Jinping, Thatcher, and the average world leader baseline. Three charts. One argument: the man who built the Roman Empire never lived in it, and the psychological profile that made him extraordinary is the same one that killed him.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
charts/chart1_lta_radar.png |
LTA radar — Caesar's psychological profile vs. comparable world leaders |
charts/chart2_rome_gdp.png |
Roman GDP per capita, 200 BCE – 400 CE |
charts/chart3_patronage_network.png |
Caesar's patronage network — trust weights and edge types |
- LTA scores — Hermann (1999) framework; coded by author from Plutarch, Suetonius, and Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Comparative scores from Wang & Guo (2019).
- Roman GDP — Maddison (2007); Scheidel & Friesen (2009), J. Roman Studies 99; Lo Cascio & Malanima (2011). Values in 1990 Geary-Khamis dollars.
- Patronage network — Plutarch, Suetonius, Strauss (2015). Qualitative network, not computationally derived.
install.packages(c("tidyverse", "scales", "ggtext",
"fmsb", "igraph", "ggraph", "tidygraph"))caesar.qmd # Master Quarto report
charts/
chart1_lta_radar.png
chart2_rome_gdp.png
chart3_patronage_network.png
artometrics.css # Artometrics stylesheet
art-head.html # Quarto header injection
art-body.html # Quarto body injection
This is the first report in the Psychonomics series by Artometrics — profiles of historical and contemporary figures through the lens of behavioral economics and leadership psychology.
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