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Author Phillip Barlag on Roman History’s Lessons for Modern Life | This is Where Your Temper Will Take You

The Daily Stoic

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Is It Possible to Have a Neros, as Bad as They Say?

The study of human natures is both rewarding and frustrating. Even one person can be contradictory, which is also an invitation to keep asking more questions,. Who was this person? What was their essence? What did it mean? And you see those meanings shift time and time again, as waves of historical scholarship look into people  and changes their assessment. So let's talk about some sort of revisionist history, or this sort ofa pinging back and forth between the extremes. Is any one of them wrong? Or do cultural value shift over time, and therefore your interpretation people shift over time.

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