Glossary
Public virtue, understood as competition by Rome's best and brightest to promote Roman welfare and glory.
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republica
Public virtue, understood as competition by Rome's best and brightest to promote Roman welfare and glory.
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Rome survived Hannibal because its mythology of piety, liberty, and republica made Romans feel obligated to make the ultimate sacrifice for the city.
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The old Roman values of piety, liberty, and republica became problems once Rome's imperial wealth and conquered land changed the incentives of republican life.
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Jiang defines republica as public virtue: competition among Rome's best and brightest to promote Roman welfare and glory.
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The rich opposed even compensated reform because piety, liberty, and republica had come to mean that the existing hierarchy must not be challenged by the poor.
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In answer to how Caesar challenged Roman identity, Jiang says Caesar changed time through the Julian calendar, acted alone as a great man, and violated the republican lesson that no one is above Rome.
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"Let's look at republica. Republica means public virtue in Latin. It's the idea that the best and brightest in Rome are in competition with..."
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"...on three principles, right? The three principles are piety, liberty, and republica. And because of these three principles, every Roman felt he or she..."
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"Basically make the land unfarmable. So then your army has no access to food. Okay? And that's how the ultimate defeated Hannibal. Because they..."
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"...a contradiction. And suddenly, these three values, okay, piety, liberty, and republica, these values that made Rome strong were now problems for the Roman..."
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"...in general. Okay? They liked the idea of piety, liberty, and republica, which means things must stay the way they are. And what's really..."
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"...you have been taught is these three ideas, piety, liberty, and republica, which is to say no one is above Rome. Everyone is equal..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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