160 - Richard Rohlin - A Universal History
The Symbolic World
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The Middle Ages - The Story of Aeneas's Family
Every major culture has somewhere in their story, somewhere in their founding story, this idea that they go back to Troy. And usually though, not always, but usually this will be somehow tied into the, into Aeneas's family. It connects you with both the old world and by the old world, I mean, like the really old, like the Hellenic Persian world. But then it also connects you to Rome. Yeah. They were still seen as, as belonging to this older, more beautiful world. So to tie back to that is a way of tying back to the, you know, you could cynically say it's a form of political legitimacy, but it's more
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