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🗓️ 10 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone this is Gary. I'm off this week visiting the beautiful Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
0:04.8 | where hopefully I will not be stranded due to a hurricane. I've hand selected some of my favorite |
0:09.5 | episodes for you to enjoy this week which statistically speaking I know most of you haven't listened to yet. you |
0:13.3 | to enjoy this week, which statistically speaking, I know most of you haven't listened to yet. |
0:14.8 | I will be back again next week fully rusted with fresh new episodes for you to enjoy. |
0:22.4 | Throughout human history, people have killed, robbed, and put their lives at risk in the pursuit of power. |
0:27.0 | In fact, almost all of history can be thought of as people, tribes, and nations all competing for power. |
0:32.0 | However, occasionally there are those who have the ability |
0:35.4 | to seize power but refuse to do so. One man in particular did so twice. Learn more about |
0:41.6 | Lucius Quintius Cincinnati on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. In the 5th century BC Rome wasn't yet the sprawling conquering behemoth that we think of today |
1:05.6 | It was one of several city states on the Italian peninsula |
1:08.9 | They were also only a few decades into the Republican period and they were still figuring things out. |
1:14.0 | It was in this environment that we find Lucyus Quintus Cincinnati. |
1:18.2 | The Quintus clan was a wealthy patrician clan that dated back to even before the founding of Rome. |
1:23.0 | The family had several Roman consoles which was a point of extreme pride amongst Roman families. |
1:28.0 | Lucius's cognomen, that being his third name was Cincinnati's, which meant Curly Hared. |
1:35.0 | One of the biggest struggles of this period was between the patricians which were the |
1:38.1 | upper-class elites and the plebeians which were the common folk. The republic was set up putting all of the power in the |
1:43.8 | hands of the Senate, to which membership was limited to the patrician class. |
1:47.1 | Needless to say, the plebeians weren't too happy with this situation. In the year |
1:52.0 | 462 BC, the plebs wanted a written |
1:54.8 | constitution that would put a check on the power of the patricians. The patricians |
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