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Jiang treats Dido's curse as the Aeneid's political explanation for Rome's hundred-year conflict with Carthage and eventual destruction of Carthaginian civilization.
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Curse
Jiang treats Dido's curse as the Aeneid's political explanation for Rome's hundred-year conflict with Carthage and eventual destruction of Carthaginian civilization.
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In Jiang's retelling, the Oresteia begins with political succession, fraternal rebellion, and a violated feast that curses the house of Atreus.
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"...my sorrows. I deserve your mercy. Hear my prayers. If that curse of the earth must reach his haven, labor on to landfall. If..."
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"...shore, sea against sea, and sword against sword. This is my curse. War between all our peoples, all their children, endless war."
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"...to happen. And it had to happen because Dido put a curse on Rome and forced her people to go to war with Rome...."
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"Does that make sense? Okay, great question. All right, any more questions before I continue? All right, so let's talk about Ishulis, okay? Because..."
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"...this, okay, he dies after this, but before he dies, he curses Atreides and says, curse upon you and your house, because a feast..."
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"...this, you are in the son of the gods, so I curse you and your entire house, okay? And then he dies. But before..."
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"...this. Okay? So the Iliad is fundamentally a story of the curse of power, the evil power, and the ability of love to both..."
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"That universal fury, a curse to Troy and her native land. And here she lurked, skulking, a thing of loathing, cowering at the altar...."
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"...they decide what they're going to do is they're going to curse him. They're going to bully him. Okay? So the new kid goes..."
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"But poetry defeats a curse which binds us to be subjected to the asinine of surrounding impressions, okay? Do you understand this idea? The..."
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"...their husbands in the other, not to bring upon themselves a curse by staining their hands with the blood of a father -in -law..."
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"...are violent, everyone's violent at the same time. Okay? If you curse God, everyone curses God. Do you want to live in a world..."
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