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Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443

Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443

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Hardcore History: Painfultainment

Dan Carlin

“really great episode”
“I think Dan Carlin has a really great episode called painful tainment”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

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The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?

Gregory Aldrete

“You co-wrote a book precisely on this topic the long shadow of anti ity what have the Greeks and Romans done for us”— Lex Fridman
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Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery

Gregory Aldrete (inferred)

“Scott and I ended up writing a scholarly book on this so this is how you know you never know where your next Project's going to come from”— Gregory Aldrete
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Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome

Gregory Aldrete (inferred)

“this was actually my uh dissertation and it was my first book amazing”— Gregory Aldrete

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

“he's real famous because he was a stoic philosopher and he wrote this book The meditations”— Gregory Aldrete
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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

Edward Luttwak

“there was a a military strategist guy named Edward lvoc who wrote this book The Grand strategy of the Roman Empire”— Gregory Aldrete
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Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Augustus

“Augustus actually writes his own autobiography which is very rare and survives ... Augustus calls his the race guesty”— Gregory Aldrete
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Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

“there's this guy quintilian who lived about 100 years after Cicero who wrote this long thing called The Institute oratoria”— Gregory Aldrete
MediaReferenced

Jaws

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

“when you hear the Jaws theme you feel tense right”— Gregory Aldrete