Roman education
204The Founding of Rome
26 Aug 2024
31:48¶ 97
“Another thing that Rachel mentioned, and I was just about to get there when she took what she thought was a tangent and isn’t…”
32:28¶ 98
“The man Cinncinnatus refused to receive the office of dictator until he was properly draped in his tunic, the robe of office, because you…”
32:40¶ 99
“The man Horatio holds the bridge against the invaders, and then cuts it and falls into the stream below in the ravine…”
174In the Beginning... Again
4 Jan 2024
22:16¶ 73
“That’s what Rome did. Roman education was largely moral tales – citizens who sacrificed their pride, their honor, their lives to defend and rescue…”
22:56¶ 75
“And those same stories lingered on. Anybody who took Latin – that would be me – up into the 1920s or ‘30s, of course…”
23:37¶ 76
“These kinds of stories kept circulating and there was a time when they did form a certain amount of the moral vocabulary of America,…”