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Caesar's will becomes evidence of a political love stronger than faction: it gives wealth and public parks to the people, names Octavian heir, and even leaves Antony and Decimus Brutus as secondary heirs.
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Political Love
Jiang's central alternative explanation is that Caesar's death made Caesar's myth dominant, turned that myth into political reality, and propelled Octavian into power.
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Jiang's central alternative explanation is that Caesar's death made Caesar's myth dominant, turned that myth into political reality, and propelled Octavian into power.
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Jiang uses Trudeau and Bush family analogies to model how public affection for one political figure can transfer onto an heir.
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"people against conspirators and eventually Public sentiment was so much against the conspirators had to flee to the provinces Okay, and then Mark Anthony..."
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"named the heir to Caesar's legacy and wealth in the in the will but in fact Caesar names this complete stranger to be his..."
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"Caesars it is shocking and it shows to the wrong people that Caesar really loved them and That Caesar loved everyone including the people..."
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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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"And so Caesar had this great myth, but it was against other dominant myths. When Caesar was killed, it made his myth the dominant..."
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"So it was basically people transferring their love of Pierre Trudeau onto their son, okay? So that's one example. The other example, of course,..."
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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