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The lecture's central problem is how an epic poem can give birth to a civilization.
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Cultural formation
The lecture's central problem is how an epic poem can give birth to a civilization.
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Jiang says the IVC was a trading culture for 7,000 to 8,000 years before becoming a civilization, so trade rather than war formed its cultural baseline.
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"So, the Iliad is the foundation of Greek civilization, which is the greatest civilization in human history, the most creative. It gave us Plato,..."
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"We know that the Egyptians, their religion focused on the afterlife. Okay? This life that we live is we, it, the, the, what, what's..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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