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The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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He describes the American Revolution as an earlier American civil war because loyalists within the colonies were terrorized by independence extremists.
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"next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read..."
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"Remus is said to have been the first to receive an omen. Six vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to..."
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"So Romulus and Remus are twins. Okay? They love each other. And, um, Rome was founded on violence. Okay? That's the very nature of..."
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"1776, War of Independence. And the reality is that, The reality is that, Americans believed this war was sacred. And it was a revolution..."
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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 June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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