Glossary
Jiang's label for Virgil: a poet who reverses Homer's love-centered universe into a piety-and-empire universe.
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anti-Homer
Jiang's label for Virgil: a poet who reverses Homer's love-centered universe into a piety-and-empire universe.
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Glossary
Jiang's name for the Aeneid as an imperial inversion and corruption of Homer.
definition
Jiang defines Virgil as the anti-Homer because Homer makes love the path to purpose and God, while Virgil makes piety, obedience, and imperial mission the organizing principle of the universe.
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Augustus' solution to the spiritual threat of Greek culture was not to destroy Homer physically, but to corrupt and invert Homer through the Aeneid.
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This section prepares Jiang's claim that Virgil negates the Iliad's lesson that love and forgiveness can come into the world even after war.
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Priam's death negates the Iliad's moral lesson of forgiving one's enemy by making the forgiving old king look foolish and deserving of death.
definition
Civilization is a set of values and ideas that guide life, and the Aeneid becomes influential because it installs an inverted, poisoned Homeric value system at Roman scale.
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"...Iliad today and as we've discussed Virgil is very much the anti Homer and so what the Iliad is It's really a response to..."
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"are that many books and also people have memorized homer so you need to corrupt homer and the solution that he devises is called..."
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"evil evil piece of work okay and it is the anti -homer so we're going to study it um because it's going to shape..."
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"...greeks will conquer the the romans and the main issue is homer so his solution is to destroy homer you can't burn books because..."
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"Okay, so Pyrrhus is a son of Achilles, okay? So this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles..."
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"Okay, so again, he is reminding us of the ending of the Iliad where in this great war, peace and love come to universe..."
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"With that and with all his might, the old man flings his spear. But too impotent now to pierce. It merely grazes Pyrrhus' brazen..."
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"is an extremely violent poetry, in fact, you can say it's almost pornographic in the violence that it depicts, all right, and the Romans..."
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"...in your life okay and what this is doing is inverting homer poison encrypting homer all right okay any questions guys okay so we'll..."
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"Okay, so again, Virgil is the anti -Homer. And what I mean by that is that if Homer were Aeneas, then what Homer would..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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