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Rome can lose battles and still get stronger because open citizenship and simpler legionary service let it replenish soldiers.
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Legions
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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Jiang rejects simple brilliance, ruthlessness, legionary loyalty, and Agrippa's generalship as sufficient explanations because other Roman actors also possessed those advantages or rival claims.
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"Now, what's interesting about this is, it's a different concept from the Greek one, but the Greeks. And the Greeks believed that what liberty..."
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"...fighting system is the hoplites. The Romans used something called the legions. Now"
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"there are some major differences between these two fighting techniques, even though for their time, they are the most advanced. As you can see,..."
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"The reason why is the legionnaires were developed to fight in a mountainous region. So they need to be able to climb, to hike..."
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"You become emperor by being lucky, okay? So that's, that doesn't suffice. Second is, you can say he was brilliant. Julius Caesar was brilliant,..."
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"...his own wife. So that doesn't explain it. Fourth is the legions, the army. They remembered Caesar, Julius Caesar, and now that Octavian is..."
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"And this, again, is true. Marcus Agrippa is a brilliant military leader. But so were Cassius, Decimus. There were other brilliant military leaders. The..."
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"...31. So in the shape of that white rose, the Holy Legion was shown to me, the host that Christ with his own blood..."
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"...Roman Republic. And he wrote about one incident where a Roman legion went off to a frontier. And the natives confronted them, and they..."
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"...units called corps. Okay? This is no different from the Roman Legion. The Roman Legion was the... main tactic of the Roman army back..."
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"...it into the Macedonian phalanx. And the Romans will have their legion, okay? Now, the difference between the Macedonians and the Romans, sorry, the..."
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