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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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Tarquin
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 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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Lucius Brutus' death fighting Tarquin's son completes his status as the greatest Roman model before Julius Caesar.
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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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"Tarchinus Tarchin the Proud hears about this and he gets really angry. So he allies himself with kings and they march against Rome. Lucius..."
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"...word that the adulterer shall not go unpunished. It is Sextus Tarquin who, coming as an enemy instead of a guest, forced from me..."
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"So two armies from these cities followed Tarquin to recover his crown and chastise the Romans. When they had entered the Roman territory, the..."
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"...the enemy's cavalry was in front of his main body, Aaronus Tarquin, the king's son, in command. The king himself followed with the legionnaires..."
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"...third man, stealing the cattle. So basically stealing a throne from Tarquin. And the story of the man sacrificing his twin is the story..."
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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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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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