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The Sabine women myth makes hospitality violation, abduction, and rape into Roman state formation.
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The Sabine women myth makes hospitality violation, abduction, and rape into Roman state formation.
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Jiang argues the Sabine women stopping the war is implausible and functions as a founding myth that makes victims authorize Rome.
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"So Romulus and Remus are twins. Okay? They love each other. And, um, Rome was founded on violence. Okay? That's the very nature of..."
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"And then, um, they will kidnap a woman and kill her. They're going to rape them. Okay? That's the plan. Okay?"
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"They were invited to accept hospitality at the different houses. And after examining the situation of the city, its walls and the large number..."
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"Then it was that the Sabine women whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly..."
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"The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange..."
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"Okay, so this couldn't possibly happen, right? So, these women are abducted, the fathers try to rescue them, and then the women say, hey,..."
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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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