“they'll start to memorize Homer, they'll start to see who can quote more passages of Homer”
Books mentioned in Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-09-12
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“because there's that, you know, Nietzsche phrase, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,”
“And he writes a history of Rome. And his motivation for writing this is, he says,”
“I mean, Antony and Cleopatra, there's a lot of stories about them”
“Augustus calls his the "Res Gestae," which the best sort of literal translation is "stuff I did."”
“"The Institutio Oratoria," which has a description of all types of oratorical stuff,”
“- Yeah, I mean, you know, Vitruvius, you know, his principles are things should be functional”
“and he wrote this book, "The Meditations." - I mean, it's just interesting.”
“"The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire," which was basically about frontiers”