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Pericles’ rhetoric converts dead sons and orphaned children into resources for imperial reproduction.
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Soldiers
Philip made the army loyal by fighting and training at the front, suffering wounds with his soldiers, eating and drinking with common soldiers, listening to complaints, and communicating a vision of Macedonian greatness.
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Lepidus loses because he lacks the confidence and charisma to challenge Octavian, and his soldiers defect to the man they see as the new Julius Caesar.
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Philip made the army loyal by fighting and training at the front, suffering wounds with his soldiers, eating and drinking with common soldiers, listening to complaints, and communicating a vision of Macedonian greatness.
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Philip's conquest of Amphipolis mattered because gold mines gave him money to pay full-time soldiers, buy noble loyalty, fund roads and projects, and bribe foreign elites.
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Spartan education is described as a system for producing emotional discipline, soldierly cohesion, and lifelong subordination of private family life to the military group.
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"is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here numberless are the chances to which as they..."
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"so he's talking to these uh parents whose sons are now dead okay and remember like during the Persian wars the Athenians were like..."
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"an orphanage and raise them to be soldiers so that so that they can go and fight for the empire and die like their..."
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"All the property, all that land that Mark Anthony controls will be given to his children with Cleopatra. They're foreign citizens. And also, Mark..."
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"...power. And seeing this lack of confidence and this insecurity, his soldiers basically went off to join Octavian. Okay? And a lot of soldiers..."
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"Even though Parmenion, he was not, he was born into the lower nobility. Okay? He certainly had some money. But Philip treated him as..."
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"...battle wounds and scars. Okay? And so because of that, his soldiers were fanatically loyal to him. Okay? And also because Philip was fighting..."
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"...praised people like Parmenion. Okay? He used his speeches to praise soldiers that were good examples. And obviously that made Parmenion feel really good...."
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"...He has money. And with these resources, he can pay his soldiers. Right? Because his soldiers are training every day. They're not farming. They're..."
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"...an education system in order to train its citizens to be soldiers. So the system worked like this. About 8 -7, you left your..."
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"...this as a way to build emotional cohesion, love, among its soldiers. And about age 18 or 19, the students would graduate. And they..."
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