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Canonical battle Jiang treats skeptically as part of Caesar’s myth.
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Alesia
Canonical battle Jiang treats skeptically as part of Caesar’s myth.
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Jiang doubts the official Alesia story and treats Caesar’s Gallic campaign as slave capture, private enrichment, army-building, and myth production.
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"...in Gaul. And it culminates in something called the Battle of Alesia, which is one of the most famous battles in history. Basically, what's..."
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"Okay? So, what was Caesar doing in Gaul? And why was he starting all these wars? The answer is really simple. Okay? There are..."
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"In fact, he became the wealthiest man in Rome. And he used his money to bribe his friends into office. Okay? So, he became..."
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"So, what Caesar was doing was, he was going to Gaul and then he was getting people to go back to Rome and announce..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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