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Jiang argues that Caesar did not primarily want to become king; like Sulla and Marius, he wanted to restore the Hannibal-era Rome of sacrifice, ancestral loyalty, and reform.
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Hannibal Wars
Jiang argues that Caesar did not primarily want to become king; like Sulla and Marius, he wanted to restore the Hannibal-era Rome of sacrifice, ancestral loyalty, and reform.
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"...make Rome great again. They're nostalgic for the Rome of the Hannibal Wars, right?"
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"When everyone came together and made the sacrifice necessary in order to protect and save Rome. They wanted to return that era, okay? And..."
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"...suffering. Okay? So the first problem is land. Remember, during the Hannibal Wars, the Second Punic War, the poor lost a lot of land..."
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