Glossary
Liberty as obedience to fathers, law, custom, and historical inheritance.
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Roman liberty
Liberty as obedience to fathers, law, custom, and historical inheritance.
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Glossary
Freedom understood as respecting Rome's laws, institutions, and history, not Greek free speech. The civic freedom preserved by loyalty to Rome's laws, institutions, and history; surrender to Hannibal would destroy it.
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Early Roman liberty is defined as obedience to fathers, history, and custom rather than Greek public speech.
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"...so because of its geographic characteristics, we emerge its concept of liberty. And its concept of liberty is obedience to the fathers, to history,..."
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"...Greek one, but the Greeks. And the Greeks believed that what liberty is, is the right to speak your mind in front of others...."
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"...think was most valuable in their lives? It's the idea of liberty. Okay? But liberty is a different conception for the Romans than for..."
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"Okay? That's what freedom was. The Romans believed liberty was about respecting the law, the institutions, and the history of Rome. It is only..."
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"...that makes you Rome unique or powerful is the idea of liberty. Okay? What Chagos did what Lucius did what Lucius did was preserve..."
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"And if you don't have liberty your life isn't worth living. Give me life or give me liberty. Okay? The third element of Roman..."
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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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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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