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The northern province where Caesar wages years of war, earns wealth, builds an army, and constructs his conqueror myth.
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Gaul
The northern province where Caesar wages years of war, earns wealth, builds an army, and constructs his conqueror 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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As consul, Caesar pushes land reform and seeks Gaul for glory, while the optimates try to block him by assigning the next consul to Italy where wars and triumphs are impossible.
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Jiang describes Caesar's Gallic campaign as genocidal and undertaken for personal glory, with Caesar claiming to kill, enslave, and spare a million Gauls each.
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The Gallic wars served three purposes in Jiang's account: money for debts and public feasts, a personally loyal army, and a Roman myth of Caesar as great conqueror.
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"Okay? So, he has these series of military campaigns in Gaul. And it culminates in... So, he's leading his soldiers into war in Gaul...."
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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 Rome. That's the reason, number one, why he went to Gaul. Second is that Caesar was trying to build a loyal army, a..."
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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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"...Crassus wants. And in return, Pompey and Crassus will give him Gaul as the promise that he will take over once he leaves this..."
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"...bread and circus and he's winning all these military exploits in Gaul and he's constructing a new reality of Caesar as the great conqueror."
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"...thing is, after the consulship, Caesar wants to go take over Gaul. Okay? And Gaul is a northern province in Rome. And there, he..."
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"...fighting wars, they're fighting wars against a lesser opponent. Okay? But Gauls are tough warriors. And the Roman, his Roman soldiers are getting the..."
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"...Romans loved generals. Romans loved conquerors. And while Caesar was in Gaul fighting these wars, what he would do is he would write down..."
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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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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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