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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus admire how the presidential campaign conversation switched without effort from Tiberius to Cleopatra. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus admire how the presidential campaign conversation switched without effort from Tiberius to Cleopatra. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

1872 Excavation of the Roman Forum

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:10.7

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel

0:27.4

with us. P and Dau Ferries, there is another way.

0:30.6

This is the Friends of History debating society. I am Gaius and I welcome Dramaticus.

0:36.0

We're in Londetium. It's the first century A.D. We're Roman citizens, Equus class. We don't work, we have Greeks to work for us, they're very good, they're

0:46.0

very able, they don't make mistakes. We are not interested in the Senate. We don't spend the money to be Senators. We're

0:55.9

far away from Rome. Nothing but trouble at Rome. There's money too, but trouble comes

1:01.1

with it. Right now the Emperor is unpopular, not our concern. We're

1:07.8

surrounded by retired centurians after 25 years in the legions. They're very happy to be here in Londinium.

1:14.4

It's not a big city, but it's a safe city.

1:18.0

And we know here by the Thames drinking our cup of wine that it will be safe for the next 2,000 years. It

1:26.1

will not be conquered, not even slightly challenged as a city. We can see 2,000 years ahead and of note we've become most concerned about the 21st

1:39.0

century although because we're Romans we're we project our history on the 21st century.

1:47.0

It's an acceptable argument because the empire that Augustus created was inherited by a series of

1:55.8

empires for the next 2,000 years and one of them is America.

2:00.0

Germanicus a very good evening to you thank you for this

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