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Roman entertainment that Jiang treats as the opposite of Greek reflective theater.
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gladiators
Roman entertainment that Jiang treats as the opposite of Greek reflective theater.
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"...civilization. And what do the Romans do? They do this, okay? Gladiators. They watch lions eat people. They watch men kill each other, okay?..."
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"...The Greeks like to watch theater. The Romans like to watch gladiator shows or lions eat people. Okay? So for most of its history..."
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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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