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Jiang rejects simple brilliance, ruthlessness, legionary loyalty, and Agrippa's generalship as sufficient explanations because other Roman actors also possessed those advantages or rival claims.
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Jiang rejects simple brilliance, ruthlessness, legionary loyalty, and Agrippa's generalship as sufficient explanations because other Roman actors also possessed those advantages or rival claims.
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"You become emperor by being lucky, okay? So that's, that doesn't suffice. Second is, you can say he was brilliant. Julius Caesar was brilliant,..."
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"...that by itself doesn't explain it either. Next explanation is Marcus Agrippa. And Marcus Agrippa is considered Octavian's partner. And he was considered a..."
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"And this, again, is true. Marcus Agrippa is a brilliant military leader. But so were Cassius, Decimus. There were other brilliant military leaders. The..."
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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