Rome is Sacked, but not by Attila the Hun, and Stoic Cicero on Aging
Details
Online discussion for:
10 AM: Reading script for YouTube presentation: Roman Stoic Philosopher and Politician Cicero on Aging and Death
10:30 AM: Discussing Cicero topic.
(We will play an existing Seneca Aging video if there is a gap here.)
11 AM: Reading script for YouTube presentation: Did Rome Fall, or Evolve Into the Barbarian Kingdoms? Sacks of Rome, and Attila the Hun’s Invasions
11:30 AM: Discussing Rome Falling topic.
Blog with YouTube script and book links:
Roman Stoic Philosopher and Politician Cicero on Aging and Death
https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/roman-stoic-philosophers-cicero-on-aging-and-death/
Teaser questions:
Why did the fifth-century Romans rely on barbarian tribes to supply their soldiers and their generals? How different were the barbarians from the Romans?
Was the term barbarian simply a later Roman ethnic slur, which was adopted by historians like Gibbon who instinctively supported European colonialism?
Did the Western Roman Empire truly fall? Or did it gradually evolve into the various barbaric kingdoms, which in turn evolved into the modern countries of Europe?
What changed for the inhabitants of the Empire after the reign of the last Western Roman Emperor?
Blog with YouTube script and book links:
Did Rome Fall, or Evolve Into the Barbarian Kingdoms? Sacks of Rome, and Attila the Hun’s Invasions
https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/did-rome-fall-or-evolve-to-barbarian-kingdoms-sack-of-rome-and-attila-the-huns-invasions/
Teaser questions:
Why did the fifth-century Romans rely on barbarian tribes to supply their soldiers and their generals? How different were the barbarians from the Romans?
Was the term barbarian simply a later Roman ethnic slur, which was adopted by historians like Gibbon who instinctively supported European colonialism?
Did the Western Roman Empire truly fall? Or did it gradually evolve into the various barbaric kingdoms, which in turn evolved into the modern countries of Europe?
What changed for the inhabitants of the Empire after the reign of the last Western Roman Emperor?
Rome is Sacked, but not by Attila the Hun, and Stoic Cicero on Aging