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The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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Jiang links Mongol and Roman founding myths to the same violent culture because Genghis Khan kills a best friend and Romulus kills a twin brother.
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The Romulus and Remus legend is read as evidence that Romans saw violence, even killing one's brother, as lying at the core of human existence when ordained by the gods.
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"next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read..."
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"...vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to Romulus when double the number appeared to him. Each was saluted as king..."
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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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"Okay? He had to kill his own brother, the person he loved, in order to create the world. And the gods thanked him for..."
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"And what's in the Roman mythology? Romulus kills his twin brother to found Rome. Okay? All right? So that shows you that the Mongols..."
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"...So, Rome was supposed to be founded in 753 BCE by Romulus. Okay? And there, there are legends surrounding Romulus. And there are lots..."
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"...Okay? The problem is this. They're twins. There's two of them. Romulus and Remus. So, and only one can be king. So, they're, so..."
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"...gods. Okay? So, that's the first legend. Second legend is this. Romulus has to build Rome and he becomes a very open person. He..."
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"The abducted maidens were quite as despondent and indignant. Romulus, however, went around in person and pointed out to them that it was all..."
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"...story of the man sacrificing his twin is the story of Romulus and Remus. So now we get to the most famous of all..."
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"...similar story. So, Sargon of Akkad who founded the Akkadian Empire Romulus and Remus who founded Rome King David who founded Israel and Genghis..."
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"...another story from Rome. So the founder of Rome is named Romulus who was a direct descendant of Aeneas. So there's a king called..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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