Dr. Peter Weller
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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You got to remember, people, everybody thinks that Italy is Italy. No.
Those are Sam Knights, the Hoskins. Those are tribes, man. Exactly. Yeah. Let's enfranchise them. What? We're killing you for that? Yeah. Incredibly unpopular. Incredibly unpopular. Well, for those of you who don't know, the Gracchi are around the turn of the century, 100 B.C., around the time the Cicero and Julius Caesar were born. And, you know, Rome is expanding. Rome is expanding.
I'm telling Casey this. And it's expanding because of the commerciality of it. Okay, and I'll give you a case in point. The Mediterranean has become its lake. That's what they call it. Lago Nosto. Why has the Mediterranean become its lake? Because in one couple of years, North Africa has been leveled. This is the third Punic War, and they just basically take over North Africa.
And then there's a little kind of a revolt, a problem in Corinth in Greece. And they got to go put down that and everything. Everybody goes, okay, you run us. So now they got Greece. And the last thing, which is my jam, which I'm going to talk about at the Breakfast Club, is one of the great miracles of the Mediterranean is the western part of Turkey.
I want to talk about that really quickly for you nerds. Because this is what really changes art with Joto. Okay, so you got a guy who's maybe the most important guy in the history of the Western world, Alexander.
We know about him. Why is Alexander important? Because Alexander is the first guy to get this idea. First of all, he's taught by Aristotle. You know what's being taught by Aristotle? His dad, the thug, Philip II of Macedonia, who lives in the rocks. He's like the bad guy at the back of the room who wants to be a cool guy. That's exactly who he is.
No, he does because you've got Corinth and Thebes and you've got Athens and they're all touchy-feely. They've got space and they've got articulation of theater and architecture and science and whatever. And this guy's a thug, man.
Yeah, man. He goes, come on, come on, man. I don't speak your Athenian Greek and all that stuff. No, man, you can't join. Sorry. Go play basketball or something, man. And he goes, you know what, man? I got a kid, and I'm going to hire Aristotle to come over and teach him. And supposedly there's a TV script at Paramount right now. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. And so that's like hiring Einstein.
To come and teach a kid. Because Aristotle's renowned. Come and teach my kid. So he teaches him four years. So what do you got? A good-looking kid who's an athlete and a stud. And a warrior genius who's the smartest guy in the room. Oh, yeah. All in one. And what is this kid interested in? You know, I mean, his dad makes the deal with Corinth. He says, join with me against Thebes.
And they go, sure. And he goes to Thebes and says, join with me against Corinth. His dad plays that game for a couple of days. And Spartacus is on his side. And then Athens goes, no, we're not joining you. And then he sends this kid in. And Alexander takes down Athens in about eight days or something like that, right?
Close to 18. Teenager. He's a teenager, and he takes that. Now, I'm going to paraphrase right now. The speeches that we don't have, but we have remnants of, by Demosthenes. He stands up, and he's the guy that tells Athens why you can't let Philip of Macedonia in. They're called the Philippics. Why can't you let Philip of Macedonia and his teenage smarty pants get in? Because we're Athens, man.
And we got Tomey, and we got math, and we got science, and we got architecture, we got plays, and we got theaters. That's us, man. We can't let this thug come in and take us over. And these are called the Philippics because they're anti-Philip.
Now, we don't have them. They're remnants of them. Okay. Cut to the chase. later, that's around 338 or something like that. Because it says later, okay, around 445, 443, Cicero against Antony is going to do the same thing.
That's so crazy. He knows that Demosthenes loses. He knows that they... But the...
principles of them are the same and they are we are a republic we have our own ethics we are the purple we have our own aesthetics we cannot kowtow to the likes of Mark Anthony who is a military stud who doesn't know his ass from his elbow about how to run a republic it's true and by the way and he's up there and we got Octavian who's going to take him down
This kid who's the nephew of Julius Caesar who's gone off to take Mark Anthony down. And people just say, hey, Cicero, shut up for a second, man. Let Octavian take him down and then make the speeches. Why did you do that? No! I'm going to make the speeches now. Yeah. Two days of speeches based on Philip of Macedonia. Demosthenes. That's so interesting. And yes.
And read Edgar Watts because he's one of the greatest foolish events ever.
Oh, he really was. Greatest foolish events ever. And I'll tell you how foolish it gets because we're talking about history. I love this, man. This is like reading Edgar Watts just like, oh, God, man. Because he puts it like, oh, this is like a short film. Okay. Octavian. Smart kid. Teenager. Studied in Greece and so forth. Nephew Julius Caesar is the adopted son, Julius Caesar.
But Julius Caesar dies. Mark Anthony makes his speech and shit like that. And they sort of don't want Mark Anthony. And they get Decius Brutus and these guys to run him out. Octavian says, and Octavian has some troops. He comes from Spain at the point. He's got Lepidus and troops left over.
He says to Cicero and everybody else, hey, not for nothing, my uncle is now my dad, my law, and he left me some goodies. Not the shit that Mark Anthony says, you know, that Julius Caesar left the Republic.
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