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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Roman Empire expert and podcast host Jeremy Ryan Slate joins the show to talk about the flaws our own founding fathers saw with Rome, Augustus Caesar's self control to not overreach with his power, and modern day comparisons to the empire.
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1:03.4 | moral decay people want to say it did early on but it could kind of couldn't recover from from what it had |
1:08.3 | done to itself during those times but the thing that ends up happening is you would finally get someone qualified, |
1:14.6 | and then someone around them would kill them. That would be the reward for being qualified. |
1:18.6 | Like you look at Aurelian in the 270s. |
1:20.6 | So he brings in the East back in, which is the Palmirean Empire. |
1:23.6 | He brings the West back in, which is the Gallic Empire, |
1:26.6 | and then he conquers the barbarians in the north, in, which is the Gallic Empire. And then he conquers, he |
1:27.8 | conquers the barbarians in the north. He puts the entire thing back together. So then he's rewarded |
1:33.0 | by being killed by his second in command. And that ends up being the end of Emperor Eurelian, |
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