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Augustus' princeps model preserved Roman culture by keeping the appearance of republican committee rule while coordinating power through a first citizen.
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Augustus' princeps model preserved Roman culture by keeping the appearance of republican committee rule while coordinating power through a first citizen.
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Jiang says Roman memory honors Lucretia's suicide as the act that gives birth to the Roman Republic, but Augustine reframes it as shame, pride, and ego.
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The Roman republican system works for a poor small nation under constant external threat but breaks down after Rome becomes a rich hegemonic empire, producing corruption, civil war, tyranny, and inequality.
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Jiang presents Caesar as a historical problem organized by three questions: his motivation, his exceptional success, and why intimates who received mercy still assassinated him.
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The post-Hannibal settlement broke the sacrificial mythology because the rich, controlling the republican government, took most of the conquered common land while the poor received little.
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By 146 BCE, Rome had become an imperial republic: an empire in substance but a republic in governmental form, creating a contradiction.
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Tarquin the Proud is presented as tyranny embodied: an arrogant king who kills noble challengers and whose son abuses royal power.
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"So let me give you some background. Okay. So during the time of Augustus, Augustus, we today see him as the first Roman emperor...."
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"And the idea here was... Okay. So even though this was not a great system, it did preserve the culture, okay? The history, the..."
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"...Lucretia, we discussed Lucretia when we discussed the history of the Roman Republic. At first, Rome was a monarchy, and the king, the king's..."
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"So she's honored and considered a hero by the Roman people. And what Augustine will say is, no, she's not a hero because she..."
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"right piety obedience and loyalty to the gods to Rome and to your fathers second principle is the idea of liberty which puts the..."
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"...and this system will lead to three major problems in the Roman Republic corruption division right civil wars and so on the decibels subirgtion..."
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"...today we are doing Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar is considered the greatest historical figure of all time...."
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"In only... 55 years. And the last question is, why did they kill him? Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his..."
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"The problem was this. The problem was that after Rome won the war, the question then is, who got the rewards? Right? Everyone made..."
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"But not only that, the remaining common land, the rich just pretended it was theirs. Okay? Meaning that they illegally occupied common land. They..."
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"His name is Tarcanus Superbus. Okay? Superbus is Latin for arrogant. So he's often referred to as Tarcan the Proud. Okay? So Tarcan the..."
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"...of reform was very simple. This is like the height of Roman Republic, extremely wealthy, lots of land. And a lot of this land..."
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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