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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
Jiang says Athenian theaters were designed for resonance, performers had to project slowly, and audiences memorized lines, making performance both audible and participatory.
"Okay, so that's a great question about acoustics. We call this acoustics. So how the theater was designed was like this, okay? You have..."
"...um the world and these cities are very similar there's an amphitheater sorry uh this is a better map okay this is program on..."
"...um the greeks were known for their theater this is the amphitheater in athens you can see it seats about"
"...First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about a thousand two thousand people within the..."
"...And everyone participated in watching the play. In fact, the largest amphitheater, these are all amphitheaters, outdoor theaters in Athens, could hold 10,000 people,..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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