Glossary
A Roman military parade culminating in sacrifice to Jupiter, used by Jiang as Rome's analogue to other civic memory forms.
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Roman triumph
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...they paraded him through New York, as though it was a triumph. Right, they did. A Roman triumph, right? And that's just a complete..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...they paraded him through New York, as though it was a triumph. Right, they did. A Roman triumph, right? And that's just a complete..."
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Roman triumphs, Viking funerals, and Greek theater are parallel communal forms, but they generate different kinds of collective consciousness: sacrifice and domination for Rome, funeral memory for Vikings, and perspective-changing empathy for Greeks.
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"...understand what's going on. For the Romans that's something called a triumph. A triumph was the highlight of Roman life. It was basically a..."
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"It would parade treasures like elephants or gold captured from the conquered people. It will also parade slaves and captured people like usually kings...."
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"The theater was it's very different. They didn't practice any human sacrifice. They didn't parade slaves around. What they did was often was write..."
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"...they paraded him through New York, as though it was a triumph. Right, they did. A Roman triumph, right? And that's just a complete..."
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