Restoring the Republic has been a theme for over 2000 years:

“ Eventually, Claudius comes to accept the inevitability of his assassination and consents to marrying his scheming niece, Agrippina the Younger, clearing the way for the ascent of his mad stepson, Nero, whose disastrous reign Claudius vainly hopes will bring about the restoration of the Roman Republic.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,Claudius(TV_series)