Richard Saller on the Ancient Rome
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2011
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is KZSU, Stanford. Welcome to entitled opinions. My name is Robert Harrison. We're coming to you from the Stanford campus. I'm Ah |
| 0:29.6 | Ah entitled |
| 0:40.3 | Entitled opinion entitled by the crystal pawns shining like a mom with God your locks of summer flower beds my paws are burning fire at night |
| 0:56.5 | Entitled opinions has a number of different constituencies among its listeners |
| 1:01.2 | There are those who prize our heavy philosophical shows |
| 1:05.3 | There are those who love most of all our music shows |
| 1:09.2 | Others are poetry and novel shows There are those who think we of all our music shows, others are poetry and novel shows. |
| 1:13.2 | There are those who think we're at our best and most relevant when discussing science and the fate of modern technology. |
| 1:19.4 | And then there are those who relish above all the shows devoted to antiquity. |
| 1:24.2 | And who can blame them? |
| 1:26.0 | Antiquities where it's at, always has, always will, providing the basic |
| 1:31.8 | principles of our modernity. The good news I have with me in the studio, one of the leading |
| 1:37.7 | scholars of ancient Roman history, and today we'll be discussing the domestic and social institutions of the ancient Romans, |
| 1:46.5 | including patriarchy, marriage, inheritance laws, divorce, death, and gender relations. |
| 1:54.7 | Stay tuned, friends. This is a show for everyone. |
| 1:58.0 | Omo sum nihil Romani Amé alienum |
| 2:01.3 | I am a human |
| 2:03.1 | being |
| 2:03.6 | nothing Roman |
| 2:05.0 | is alien to me. |
| 2:56.0 | I'm I'm I'm That looks so good, it looks so cool, you'll plunge your lips into the pool, but don't give in, be a fool, I tell you about that water is cool. That theme song of ours is a good little example of antiquity's afterlife in our own age. It's called Echo. Echo was the |
| 3:02.5 | nymph who in Ovid's version of the story fell in love with Narcissus, who was too in love with himself |
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