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War imposes reality through force and obedience, while speech imposes reality through words, beauty, and truth.
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War imposes reality through force and obedience, while speech imposes reality through words, beauty, and truth.
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The Priam scene in the Aeneid reverses Jiang's Homeric reading: love, friendship, and forgiveness are presented as lies or tricks, while brutality and force triumph.
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"...make others believe what you believe. Right? You do that through force. By brute strength, you show that you're superior. And therefore, others must..."
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"...all a lie. It's all just trickery. Okay? Only brutality and force will triumph in the end. Aeneas is trying to save Priam, but..."
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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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