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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the byzantine empire and he will now talk about the history of rome which will be the next canto um question there's a word..."
Jiang identifies the radiant figure in the new heavenly sphere as Justinian, the Byzantine emperor, and frames the next canto as Justinian's history of Rome.
"...the byzantine empire and he will now talk about the history of rome which will be the next canto um question there's a word..."
"...to Incius, what happens is that the prophecy becomes the history of Rome. And Aeneas is told that when you go to Rome, your..."
"...in response, go and sack Rome, okay? But this time in history, Rome is no longer a power. It doesn't really matter anymore. Augustine,..."
"...the Carthaginians. We actually don't know that much about the history of Rome."
"...wipe out the entire Roman army. And at this point in history, Rome needs to surrender. Okay? So, Hannibal sends an envoy to the..."
"...more reasonable. Okay? So, Polybius basically made up the entire history of Rome. The thing to remember about history is that if you're a..."
"...rise of the imperial bureaucracy, let's first re -examine the history of Rome. Okay? So in the year 500 BCE, Rome became a republic...."
"...who wrote the history books. The people who wrote the history of Rome were actually the nobility. They were the settlers, the aristocrats. Okay?..."
"...the Roman Republic. Okay? So does that make sense? The history of Rome. Okay. This is important for us because the same thing will..."
"...that's the idea of strategic death. Also, remember in the history of Rome, Hannibal had won every single battle on the Italian peninsula. He..."
"...east. And the third reason is, again, throughout most of its history, Rome's main competitor were the Persian Empire to the east."
"...crops for export. So suddenly for the first time in its history, Rome couldn't feed itself. You have to rely on imports from the..."
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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...
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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