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Jiang's description of Homer as the figure Greeks imitate when trying to inspire or beget civilization.
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father of civilization
Jiang's description of Homer as the figure Greeks imitate when trying to inspire or beget civilization.
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"...to become Homer. He was trying to become a teacher of civilization, an inspirer of civilization, okay? A begotter of civilization. That's what Plato..."
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"...thinker a great intellectual to create the spark to ignite your civilization okay so in greece they had homer and we today we can..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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