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A student and Jiang agree that Caesar's later deification under Augustus means Brutus and Cassius can be read as killers not only of a host but of a godlike figure in the Roman imagination.
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Roman imagination
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Is it not even worse? Is it because the Romans then later said that Julius Caesar is God, so it's betrayal of God maybe..."
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Jiang treats 'Vinni, vedi, vici' as Caesar's most famous line and another act of myth making that captures the Roman imagination.
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"Is it not even worse? Is it because the Romans then later said that Julius Caesar is God, so it's betrayal of God maybe..."
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"Exactly. That's right. After Augustus Caesar comes to power, he elevates Julius Caesar to divinity, okay? So this is why they're in hell. Because..."
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"Pompey chooses to use the anvil and hammer strategy. Remember what the anvil and hammer strategy is, where your infantry locks the enemy, the..."
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"He basically said, Vinni, vedi, vici. Okay? Beautiful Latin. The most powerful Latin phrase ever spoken in human history. It means, I came, I..."
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"...each other. Okay? When you do that, in the, in the Roman imagination, the human, Roman mind, you then collapse the economy between Brutus..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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