Jiang argues that Dante routinely combines separate myths and expects a highly educated fourteenth-century readership to recognize the links.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay? So... The archaeologists believe that the Proto -Indo -Europeans lived in the steppes of modern -day Ukraine. And they spread around the world..."
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A participant recalls the Apollo pursuit myth as background for the allusion Jiang is invoking.
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"Okay? So... The archaeologists believe that the Proto -Indo -Europeans lived in the steppes of modern -day Ukraine. And they spread around the world..."
"This is the 14th century. Obviously, you have to be very well educated to read Dante. So everyone knows the mythology of Romulus and..."
"That person was running from Apollo because Apollo was chasing her."
"...adam and eve of paradise right so basically that's like the allusion to that"
"...the pledge when sealed with our right hands, this is an allusion, of course, to, um, right here, okay? This is an allusion, of..."
"...Carney's speech, and he makes in his speech two major historical allusions. The first is to Thucydides, and Thucydides is writing about the Peloponnesian..."
"So I think that with this Thucydides allusion, Mark Carney is sort of like hinting to his audience that we are at this moment..."
"...And everything that he writes, in every sentence, there are multiple allusions and references to other books. Okay. So you must have read what..."
"It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what..."
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