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Jiang treats Alexander the Great's presence in the violent circle as paradoxical because a year-1300 reader would naturally compare him to Julius Caesar, another conqueror who is instead placed in limbo.
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Alexander the Great
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...other people. Okay? Now, inside this, uh, boiling lake is Alexander the Great. What's problematic about this? Why, why, why would this be paradoxical?..."
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Jiang says Augustus survives in the poem only as remembered speech through Virgil, while Alexander and Julius Caesar receive actual infernal placement.
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He argues that unless one accepts a divine plan, the spread of Christianity is harder to explain than the rise of a hero cult around obvious conquerors like Caesar or Alexander.
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Jiang concludes that Greek theater and philosophy were incubated in Athens and Greece but conquered the world through Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic Empire, becoming a basis of Western civilization.
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"...other people. Okay? Now, inside this, uh, boiling lake is Alexander the Great. What's problematic about this? Why, why, why would this be paradoxical?..."
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"...I'm saying like in year 1300, if you think of Alexander the Great, who do you think of? Caesar. Julius Caesar, right? Where's Julius..."
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"...see Socrates in limbo. We know he's there. We see Alexander the Great being burned alive in the circle of violence. We know he..."
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"Can you please explain to me how this happened? Two billion people in the world are Christians. Okay? Now, I don't insult Christians, but..."
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"...was a religion about Julius Caesar, or Genghis Khan, or Alexander the Great, these, or Napoleon, because they did a lot, right? I'm not..."
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"...main reason are two individuals, Philip II of Macedonia and Alexander the Great, okay? Who together will create the Hellenistic Empire. And this is..."
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"...were in a circle of violence. We met people like Alexander the Great. And yeah, you can come, you can make the argument that..."
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"...right it's like there's a reason why no one since alexander the great has been able to you know even step foot in any..."
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"...blood. I have divine blood from Hercules, from Achilles, from Alexander the Great. That's why I should rule the world because I'm not gonna..."
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"...of mutual, you know, enjoyment. It's like a weird power, Alexander, the great thing, you know, like, can I be AC do see it?..."
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"...world. A lot of Jews will work as mercenaries in Alexander the Great's army as he conquers Persia, and as the Hellenistic world comes..."
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"...then is, there have been many famous individuals in history. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Zoroastria, Homer. But it is Jesus that most..."
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