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Episode 5: Beneath the Obelisks (Ancient Egyptian Fiction)

Literature and History

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The Eloquence of the Eloquent Peasant

The speech was written four thousand years ago, in one of the most iron-fisted autocracies the world has known. It's a speech calling for social justice for the repressed and prosecution of the wealthy and privileged to take advantage of them. The words were anticipating the anti-monarchical and reformist arguments of thinkers like John Milton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx.

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