The Inferno category in which Ulysses appears; Jiang ties it specifically to deceptive political counsel such as the Trojan horse.
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false counselors
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...on this um he's in the he's in the realm of false counselors and he obviously he went on the the boat trip um..."
Key Notes
Jiang says Dante punishes Ulysses primarily for counseling the Greeks to use the Trojan horse, not for leaving his family or leading his final voyage.
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"...on this um he's in the he's in the realm of false counselors and he obviously he went on the the boat trip um..."
"right okay all right so that's really interesting um so let me make some comments first of all ulysses is there where he has..."
"we've got we've got false counselors in hell and there can be true counselors and so you could be a famous true counselor"
"...it's effective dante puts him there because he essentially is a false counselor to all of humanity up until today"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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