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Polybius, as a Greek writing for Rome, allegedly created the Second Punic War story to justify Carthage’s destruction as defensive necessity.
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Imperial history
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Jiang says Roman imperial history demonstrates how official narrative can unify a sprawling empire, citing Augustus Caesar's sponsorship of Livy as an example of politically organized history-writing.
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"mean I mean I think that history is a tool of power history is a mechanism by which the elite create an imagined community..."
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"There's no way it could have happened. The second thing is, you can also say that Hannibal Barca did not exist as a person...."
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"Okay? They burned it in Carthage. Now, during this war, a Greek named Polybius, okay? Polybius was a hostage of Rome, and he became..."
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"Hannibal was going to destroy them. And so, they all saw Carthage as a threat, and therefore, they had to destroy Carthage. Now, it's..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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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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