
An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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Are You Sounding Like the Great German History Theodore Momps?
Pompey didn't have what it took to really break with the elite, but caesar did. They started making guys from spain, for instance, into roman citizens. And this was horrifying to people like cato and cicero. But pompey and caesar said, no choice, folks. We got to make deals with the provincial elites. It's oth people who believed in freedom and freedom of speech and liberty that they didn't see the need to do this. That was their undoing.
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