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Jiang says Virgil and Cato know each other from Roman history and limbo, making Virgil's politeness and fear meaningful.
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Roman History
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He explains Roman stories as oral history later written in different versions and canonized by Livy under the early empire.
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Jiang argues that much of Roman history is not objective and often does not make sense on close analysis, using Hannibal's invasion and the reported scale of Cannae as examples.
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"Okay. So what's happening here is Cato's like, what are you guys doing here? And Virgil steps up and tries to explain what's going..."
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"of Roman history if you analyze it closely it doesn't make any sense if you look at Hannibal Barca's invasion of Rome it makes..."
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"That's basically the message. Right? Any more questions? That's a great question. Okay. So how do we know this? The answer is this. For..."
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"he's just reciting or just summarizing roman history where and the point is the tone is that it is all ordained by god the..."
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"...Caesar who sponsored Livy and and and the official writing of Roman history it was it was extremely powerful and that now you have..."
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"...Come get us. Okay? And this marks a turning point in Roman history. So, let's look over some of the major events. This is..."
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"...problem. Second problem is game theory. Okay? So, if you read Roman history, what they will tell you is that Hannibal, after the Battle..."
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"...So, again, I hate to say this. Okay? But basically, all Roman history is complete nonsense. All right? If you read Roman history, just..."
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"Okay? This is one of the most radical turning points in Roman history. So, right now, there's massive inequality in Rome. The nobility have..."
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"...he doing there? Okay. Okay. Well, if you look at official Roman history, what he's doing there is he's trying to pacify the people..."
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"...Yep. All right. So this is a pretty memorable event in Roman history. It's called the Rape of the Sabine Woman. Okay. And these..."
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"...And I keep on saying this, but like, just take all Roman history and just, like, throw it in the garbage, okay? Because it's..."
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