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Augustus' legitimacy problem is that Caesar and Augustus do not descend from the two major Roman founding myths, so a deeper Julii ancestry must be constructed through Aeneas.
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Founding Myth
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"army and they serve like 20 years or 30 years they're all paid by one man the Emperor through his land holdings in Egypt..."
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"The first is Romulus, right? The first king of Rome. The second is Lucius Brutus and the founding of the Roman Republic. Now, Julius..."
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"So, in other words, Romulus is descended from Aeneas, but Julius Caesar is also descended from Aeneas. Okay? So, that is how Augustus Caesar..."
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"...the mythology of hitler and nazism is very strong it's the founding myth and it does a lot of work obviously for the support..."
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"...be one big family, okay? So, this is one of the founding myths of Rome. And I keep on saying this, but like, just..."
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"...from and then these stories will become a common myth a founding myth of why they're here and they come"
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"...secret history. And that's very similar by the way to other founding myths of other people. Like for example let's look at Rome. Okay?..."
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"...myth, what's important is that you kill your beloved. But the founding myth of Christianity is, no, I kill myself to show you that..."
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