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In Jiang's reading, the divine figure who embodies the force that checks Achilles' rage.
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Athena
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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In Jiang's reading, Hera and Athena intervene because Agamemnon's failure would end the war before Greek glory is won.
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Athena's intervention summons Odysseus to use winning words to stop the Achaeans from hauling their ships to sea.
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Athena is interpreted as part of Odysseus' soul, an intuition that tells him something is wrong and he must stop the army's flight.
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Athena's intervention is not factual in a literal sense, but it truthfully describes an emotional command that stops Achilles from acting on murderous rage.
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Athena's response to Orestes's impossible case is to convene a jury of 500 Athenian citizens, with both sides making morally compelling arguments.
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In Jiang's reading of the Oresteia, Athena resolves the hung jury by voting for Orestes and then converting the feared Furies into civic figures of justice, truth, and righteousness.
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Jiang argues that the Oresteia tells Athenians democracy came from Athena and gives each juror the same voting power as the goddess herself.
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"...lose us this war. What a moron. And Hera says to Athena, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's not actually Hera and Aphrodite. It's Hera..."
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"...fighting the will of fate. Yes, if Hera had not alerted Athena. Inconceivable. Child of Zeus whose battle shield is thunder. Tireless one, Athena...."
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"The bright -eyed goddess Pallas lost no time. Down she flashed from the peaks of Mount Olympus, quickly reached the ships and found Odysseus..."
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"All you Argives flying home to your fatherland, tumbling into your oarswept ships, leaving Priam and all the men of Troy a trophy to..."
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"Helen of Argos. Helen for whom so many Argives lost their lives in Troy, far from native land. No, don't give up now. Range..."
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"...single handedly save the Greeks from losing this war. Okay. So Athena, right? Athena is always part of Odysseus. It's part of his soul,..."
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"...huge blade from his sheath, down from the vaulting heavens swept Athena. Athena's here now, okay,"
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"...He knew her at once, okay? So Achilles is a hallucinating Athena. No one else can see her, okay? Pallas Athena, the terrible blazing..."
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"...Achilles wants to kill Agamemnon, but now he's being possessed by Athena, okay? And Athena says, stop. So she urged, and the swift runner..."
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"So, again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain..."
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"And Athena is the goddess of wisdom. So Orestes tells Athena, the goddess, his story, and he begs for her help, okay? And Athena..."
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"...okay? It was divided evenly. So what then happens now is, Athena comes in and says that, because you are deadlocked, I will be..."
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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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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