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The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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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...
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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...
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The Romulus and Remus legend is read as evidence that Romans saw violence, even killing one's brother, as lying at the core of human existence when ordained by the gods.
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"next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read..."
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"Remus is said to have been the first to receive an omen. Six vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to..."
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"So Romulus and Remus are twins. Okay? They love each other. And, um, Rome was founded on violence. Okay? That's the very nature of..."
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"Okay? So, basically, the Greeks invented history. The Romans, they basically elevate their history into mythology. Their, their history became their religion. Okay? So,..."
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"...problem is this. They're twins. There's two of them. Romulus and Remus. So, and only one can be king. So, they're, so they get..."
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"And that's the founding legend of Rome. And from this legend we can sort of understand or make some extrapolations about the Roman psychology...."
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"...The story of the founding of Rome is that Romulus and Remus were twins. And they grew up together. And they rose up together...."
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"...saying is that that refers to the myth of Romulus and Remus. Right? Because we all know... Because in this context... Okay?"
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"...to read Dante. So everyone knows the mythology of Romulus and Remus. And then what Dante does in this one line is... It also..."
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"...the two things. You're absolutely right. Pallas and Athena, Romulus and Remus... I didn't see the connection. And what Dante is doing is... By..."
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"...the man sacrificing his twin is the story of Romulus and Remus. So now we get to the most famous of all Roman epics..."
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"...So, Sargon of Akkad who founded the Akkadian Empire Romulus and Remus who founded Rome King David who founded Israel and Genghis Khan of..."
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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...
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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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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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