Jiang says the canto's Roman-eagle history compresses the early Republic, including the Sabine women and Lucretia, into a fast summary of the political lineage that will culminate in empire.
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Sabine women
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The Sabine women myth makes hospitality violation, abduction, and rape into Roman state formation.
Livy’s Sabine account reframes abduction as eventual reconciliation and love, which Jiang treats as disgusting blame-shifting propaganda.
Jiang interprets the Sabine women story as a metaphor for war: kill the enemy, take the wife, then create a mythology that says she thanks you.
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"...conquered the neighbors its neighbors in the year reaching from wrong sabine women to lucretius's grief okay so the sabine woman lucretia's uh suicide"
"is all part of the early history of the roman republic okay enough time to go into this history but what he's doing is..."
"courageous romans who hurried to encounter brennus pyrrhus and other principates and cities through this for coitus quinch quinchius who is named for his..."
"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..."
"And then, um, they will kidnap a woman and kill her. They're going to rape them. Okay? That's the plan. Okay?"
"They were invited to accept hospitality at the different houses. And after examining the situation of the city, its walls and the large number..."
"The abducted maidens were quite as despondent and indignant. Romulus, however, went around in person and pointed out to them that it was all..."
"Okay. So the Romans are pretty disgusting. Okay. They raped a woman and said, it's your fault or it's your parents' fault. And I..."
"Then it was that the Sabine women whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly..."
"The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange..."
"So, I think I did not fully understand the part which the romance rape of those women and women blame the sins on themselves...."
"Okay. So, I think that's a good question. Okay. I think that's a good question. Okay. So, the rape of the seven women didn't..."
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