Doomed to Repeat It: Recent Episodes
Doomed to Repeat It
Our final episode on the breakdown of civil discourse in the Roman Republic and the United States.
Nick and Logan continue our conversation regarding the decline of mos maiorum in the Roman Republic. This time we focus on the rise of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Nick and Logan discuss the breakdown in mos maiorum (or "the way of the ancestors") and the parallel breakdown in civil discourse in our own time.
What parellels, if any, can we draw between the recent Central American migrant caravan and Julius Ceasar's dealings with the Helvetii?
In this episode we answer the questions, what is history, why history, and what can an understanding of history tell us about current events? When we use the word history, what do we mean?