HOTD vs History: Murdering Family for Power

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

History of Westeros

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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We are joined by Daniele Bolelli of the History on Fire podcast for a comparison of historical families in the real world to those in HOTD/ASOIAF and their relative levels of lust for power and willingness to kill each other.
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1:41.0	With House of the Dragon and before it a game of thrones, we have portrayals of competing often interrelated families that are well quite murderous.
1:50.0	They go after each other, they're ambitious, they take each other's power, each other's claims, sometimes from rival families, sometimes from within the same family, sometimes a mix of both because of all the interconnectedness of families.
2:03.0	With this episode today, we're going to get into how realistic is that?
2:08.0	Obviously, dragons and magic isn't very realistic, although in some ancient societies, they did believe in those things.
2:16.0	But we're really going to get into how realistic the portrayal of this bloody murderous quest for power or this need to survive in a environment where people are questing for power and killing each other over it.
2:32.0	Sometimes you just get sucked into the machine rather than being someone that's out there trying to murder a lot of people in order to claim power or to stop them from claiming yours.
2:40.0	So we're going to get into how realistic that is by bringing up a variety of real world examples throughout history, long stretches of time, different cultures, different religions, different situations.
2:51.0	And ultimately, we're going to try to answer this question, is the real world worse, better about the same, we'll see where we land after these discussions go.
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