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Jiang defines arete as virtue, excellence, character, or the special quality one excels at.
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Character
Iliad characters are treated as living, breathing persons whose speeches reveal memories, origins, desires, and futures rather than as merely fictional figures.
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Iliad characters are treated as living, breathing persons whose speeches reveal memories, origins, desires, and futures rather than as merely fictional figures.
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Catharsis creates a reciprocal identification in which the tragic character lives in the spectator and the spectator lives in the character.
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Jiang says Agamemnon becomes a real character because his actions are presented as rationally coherent: he sees Achilles as stealing the woman he loves more than his own wife.
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Jiang treats Achilles as alive in the scene because he listens, responds to Agamemnon, and frames himself as a warrior who came to Troy under Agamemnon's command rather than from hatred of the Trojans.
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Jiang presents Homer's achievement as the ability of one mind to generate multiple coherent minds, including speaker, audience, emotional effects, memory effects, and long-term behavioral consequences.
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Jiang says the Iliad makes even observers such as Nestor alive, so main and supporting figures alike have real emotions, feelings, and experiences.
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Homer's characters require explanation because Achilles, Odysseus, and Agamemnon feel so real that readers can hear them speak internally and socially.
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"...erite. The second is eudaimonia. So, erite means virtue, excellence, or character. It's something that makes you special, what you excel at. And traditionally,..."
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"...as I keep on discussing when we read the Iliad each character is a real person okay each character has a living present and..."
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"...commit catharsis what happens is that you now connect with the character itself so the character now lives in you and you live in..."
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"...about it. Right? And this is what makes Agamemnon a real character to us. All right? But the other thing is that Achilles behaves..."
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"I take a little bit. And now you're stealing that little bit from me as well. Okay? So why is Achilles saying this? Achilles..."
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"But we all know that you are vain. Okay? You're a narcissist. You're an asshole. You came here to win glory for yourself. You're..."
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"...Agamemnon and Achilles. Okay? So not only are the two main characters have a life of their own, but the observers have a life..."
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"...able to do this? Right? How was he able to construct characters like Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon? That are so real that they feel alive..."
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"...focused on holistic holistic okay the new one is holistic specifically character just being smart is not good enough you have to be a..."
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"good we need people who are manly who are strong who are brave we need white people okay so they develop this holistic system..."
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"...imagination. But what he does that's different is he reimagines the characters, he uses new diction into the plays to make it beautiful. So..."
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"They hate alcohol, they hate fun, they hate theatre, especially theatre. They hate Shakespeare. So they banned it. So during this time, Shakespeare is..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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