Romans behave according to myths they believe, so false stories still become real social scripts.
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Romans behave according to myths they believe, so false stories still become real social scripts.
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"So everything that we've read is not true, but the Romans thought it was true. And remember, people cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality...."
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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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