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Brutus watching and organizing his sons’ execution creates an unbearable emotional charge that Jiang identifies as the Roman military secret.
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Roman military
Brutus watching and organizing his sons’ execution creates an unbearable emotional charge that Jiang identifies as the Roman military secret.
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"Their punishment created a great sensation owing to the fact that the consular office imposed upon a father the duty of inflicting punishment on..."
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"The lictors were told off to inflict the penalty. They scourged their bare backs with rods and then beheaded them. During the whole time,..."
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"So you're a father, right? And these are your two sons. You love your two sons more than anything else in the world. You..."
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"...turn it against your enemy, okay? That's the secret of the Roman military. To create a society so hateful, so angry, so vicious, that..."
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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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