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Early Roman liberty is defined as obedience to fathers, history, and custom rather than Greek public speech.
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Citizenship
Rome can lose battles and still get stronger because open citizenship and simpler legionary service let it replenish soldiers.
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Rome can lose battles and still get stronger because open citizenship and simpler legionary service let it replenish soldiers.
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After Bronze Age collapse, the Greek polis restored open warfare and civic debate, so risking one's life in war became tied to the right and need to speak.
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Jiang reads the Dreyfus Affair as a test of French rights-nationalism: if the justice system can mistreat one citizen, all citizens are at risk.
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Jiang contrasts violent suppression elsewhere in 1848 with Prussian concessions, arguing Prussian rulers respected citizens because unity was necessary for survival amid enemies.
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The Social War forced Rome to grant citizenship to Italian allies, but left unresolved the question of how much voting power those new citizens would have in an unequal republic.
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Caesar's reforms - land reform, debt relief, the Julian calendar, clemency, and expanded citizenship - are presented as efforts to resolve the contradictions that produced instability, civil war, and revolution.
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He gives the standard explanation that Rome's open citizenship and immigration policy gave it an enormous manpower pool compared with Greek and Carthaginian citizenship systems.
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"And this is very impressive, because if you've ever been to Italy, it's very hilly. So there's a tremendous effort to build roads. But..."
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"...major difference between the Greeks and the Romans is, in Greece, citizenship is passed on from family to family. But in Rome, citizenship can..."
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"war, but as it does so, it gets stronger and stronger, because it's learning with each defeat, okay? And that is the secret to..."
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"there are some major differences between these two fighting techniques, even though for their time, they are the most advanced. As you can see,..."
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"The reason why is the legionnaires were developed to fight in a mountainous region. So they need to be able to climb, to hike..."
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"And this is true for all empires, and this is true for my society. So this is true for all empires. This is true..."
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"so as a citizen you were required to speak in front of others and as a result you even though you could be a..."
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"Also, there were a lot of anti -Semitic elements within the French military. So rather than just say, you know what? We got the..."
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"And the answer is, it has to do with the French identity. At this point in history, there's this huge conflict between French liberals..."
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"And they were very successful at that until 1848, when the middle class, when the workers rebelled in 17 different places. You will notice..."
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"And now people are really, really angry. So they erect barricades. They're getting ready for civil war. This is another French Revolution. And at..."
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"And they war. He and his ministers war the revolutionary tricolor of black, red, and gold, which is, by the way, the flag of..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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