And Caesar is a world historical force. And like a world historical force, we cannot judge him by the values of ordinary life."
OURS, MY BOY, IS A HIGH AND LONELY DESTINY.
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Sorry, I came here for the review of Rome Season One and was scrolling down through the comments when I hit that block of apologia. Then I went to check Fears' dates to see if by any chance he was writing in the '20's or '30's or even the '50's, but no, he was born in 1945 and only died in 2012 and the internet tells me that lecture series was compiled in 2005. Unless he deconstructs that claim to justification of empire in his next paragraph, I don't care that he won teaching awards by the bushel at the University of Oklahoma (and I am very fond of OU, it being the school where my grandfather was a professor for decades), my classics degrees and I call NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.
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Date: 2017-03-19 12:37 am (UTC)OURS, MY BOY, IS A HIGH AND LONELY DESTINY.
< / Andrew Ketterley >
Sorry, I came here for the review of Rome Season One and was scrolling down through the comments when I hit that block of apologia. Then I went to check Fears' dates to see if by any chance he was writing in the '20's or '30's or even the '50's, but no, he was born in 1945 and only died in 2012 and the internet tells me that lecture series was compiled in 2005. Unless he deconstructs that claim to justification of empire in his next paragraph, I don't care that he won teaching awards by the bushel at the University of Oklahoma (and I am very fond of OU, it being the school where my grandfather was a professor for decades), my classics degrees and I call NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.