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The post-republican order Jiang says will be born after Caesar's death.
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Roman Empire
The post-republican order Jiang says will be born after Caesar's death.
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The Aeneid becomes, in Jiang's reading, the bible of the Roman Empire: a school text for Latin and an imperial inversion of Homer that damages Western creativity until Dante answers it.
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The Roman Empire used the Catholic Church to assimilate pagan migrants because conversion to a religion of mercy and forgiveness made them easier to manage.
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The Aeneid is governed by destiny: Aeneas' real purpose is to reach Rome so his son can build the Roman Empire.
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Jiang clarifies that the lecture describes the Roman Empire's new conception of reality, not immediate historical reality; he says that conception eventually becomes reality over time.
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Jiang argues that Tiberius can be said to mark the death of the Roman Empire: it continues for centuries, but only through size and inertia amid internal revolt and tension.
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Jiang previews the next lecture as the world Caesar created after his death: the Republic falls and the Roman Empire is born.
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He presents the rise of Christianity as an example where he distrusts conventional history and finds Roman imperial co-option a more plausible explanation.
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Once Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion, Jiang argues, it needed new theories that would reinvent a revolutionary faith as an establishment religion.
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"...and inverting them okay so this becomes the bible of the Roman empire meaning that if you're a school boy you have to memorize..."
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"so what we'll do is we will read the Iliad for the next two weeks and understand how it poisons and corrupts Homer and..."
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"...not let him and so this became the bible of the roman empire it is a"
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"evil evil piece of work okay and it is the anti -homer so we're going to study it um because it's going to shape..."
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"...is the United States. But this was true during the late Roman Empire as well, okay? You have all these barbarians, they're called barbarians,..."
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"And what they discovered is, the best way to do that is through the Catholic Church, right? Because remember, these barbarians, they're pagans. They..."
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"and he only stopped because the gods intervened, okay? Remember, Aeneas wanted to abandon his family and get killed in the streets of Troy...."
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"...to go to Rome so that his son can build the Roman Empire. So another major message of this book is the end point..."
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"...is about the new conception of reality as introduced by the Roman Empire. Okay? But eventually this will become the new reality. It will..."
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"...could make the argument that Tiberius marked the death of the Roman Empire, okay? The Roman Empire would continue for another, like, 300 years...."
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"...happens after he dies and look at the birth of the Roman Empire."
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"...much easier explanation is that it became co -opted by the Roman Empire in order to control the Empire. Right? But if you would..."
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