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The founder of the Roman Empire whose missing physical placement becomes a central interpretive pressure point in Jiang's reading.
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Augustus Caesar
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Where, where, but where is Augustus Caesar located in the Divine Comedy? Does he appear? Augustus Caesar is one of the most important historical..."
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"Where, where, but where is Augustus Caesar located in the Divine Comedy? Does he appear? Augustus Caesar is one of the most important historical..."
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"...situated? Where, where does it say purgatory? Where, we see Julius Caesar in limbo. We know he's there. We see Socrates in limbo. We..."
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"...Brutus and Cassius, of course, are the two who assassinated Julius Caesar. But we know for a fact that there is a plan, right?..."
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"Exactly. That's right. After Augustus Caesar comes to power, he elevates Julius Caesar to divinity, okay? So this is why they're in hell. Because..."
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"...of God's will, yeah, then it makes sense to put Julius Caesar in limbo. But this raises another question. Where's Augustus Caesar? Okay. We'll,..."
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"...is. If we're looking for Divine Comedy, where can we find Augustus Caesar?"
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"...So do you think, how do you think Donny feels about Augustus Caesar? Well, just, can, can you explain?"
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"...how he's able to do this because God willed it. So Augustus Caesar, what he did was he took this gift of poetry, which..."
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"...thing as what Justinian told us, right? Then you have Julius Caesar who will give rise to Augustus Caesar. And when this happens, when..."
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"the third caesar is tiberius caesar right the first is julius caesar augustus caesar and the third is tiberius caesar tiberius caesar is important..."
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"...Brutus and Cassius into hell. Because Virgil's master, of course, is Augustus Caesar. Right? And Augustus Caesar, his father is Julius Caesar. And in..."
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"...perspective leads to the corruption of the roman soul and so augustus caesar who is really considered the first emperor of rome he recognizes..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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