The Rise of History’s Greatest Emperor: An Untold Story - Alex Petkas - #1085

Apr 16, 2026 · 2h 1m · YouTube

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0:00Why is learning about Roman history useful or instructive at helping us in the modern world?

0:06Why should anybody care?

0:07I think that so when I was starting my podcast, I'd been doing it for a couple of months with a kind of hunch on this question, and I wasn't really able to articulate it to my satisfaction.

0:25But a friend of mine a few months in recommended that I read this book by Nietzsche, one of his early books that, and I'd read some Nietzsche before.

0:38It's called On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.

0:43And Nietzsche talks in there about how history can sort of drain the life out of you and turn you into a kind of crippled shell of a person.

0:57It can kind of get you in this state where you question all of your decisions.

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