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The early imperial historian Jiang names as the writer who gathered Rome's official history from oral and written traditions.
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Livy
The early imperial historian Jiang names as the writer who gathered Rome's official history from oral and written traditions.
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Augustus responds to Greek cultural dominance by sponsoring a Roman culture and history distinct from and more powerful than Greece.
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Livy’s Roman lens begins with Trojan descent, trickery by Greeks, Aeneas carrying the father, and women treated as disposable.
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Iran's muted response is, in Jiang's reading, a strategy of controlled humiliation: hold the population back until insult and anger force the regime toward declaring war.
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He explains Roman stories as oral history later written in different versions and canonized by Livy under the early empire.
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"Okay? And he's really considered the first Roman emperor. But what's really important for us to understand is... At this point in history, the..."
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"...main architect of the history of Roman Empire. And he tells Livy to basically rewrite the history, but from a Roman lens, as opposed..."
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"And in the Roman tradition, what's going to happen is the Romans are descendants of Troy. Remember, Troy and Aelian was destroyed by the..."
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"Hi YouTube, Professor Jiang here with another update. So, things seem to have quieted down in the Middle East. But as I said, all..."
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"...to infuriate your population. So let me explain what I mean. Livy, the Roman historian, he wrote the entire history of the Roman Republic...."
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"So that's what's happening in Iran today. The Iranian people are clearly insulted and humiliated by this U.S. bombing, and the Iranian government is..."
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"...different versions of these stories. And then a man named named Livy during the time of the Roman Empire when it was first founded..."
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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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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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