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Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
The Roman Empire and the Impiety Law - Is That a Fair Parallel?
The impiety law might primarily have been used against non athenians and foreigners. In which case there might be a parallel to the athenians who were later on expelled in rome when the romans, during the middle republic, thought that athenian philosophy was dangerous. Is that a fair parallel to and if so, an ironic one? You are quite right that the romans had a much more regular practice of expelling philosophers because they were thought to be greek. And that was unroman. Though the romans adopted lots of greek things, they weren't so keen on pure theoretical speculation.
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