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Pericles’ famous speech, interpreted by Jiang as imperial rather than democratic rhetoric.
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funeral oration
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Pericles's speech honoring Athenian war dead, which Jiang says Euripides reimagines as the mother holding the son's head.
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The Athenian public speech genre Jiang uses as a model of how war meaning and collective identity are produced.
diagnosis
He interprets Pericles’ funeral oration as a speech about empire rather than democracy.
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Jiang says Pericles's funeral oration praised Athens as open, tolerant, democratic, and glorious, then justified young men dying for empire and democracy.
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Jiang argues that Euripides reimagines Pericles's funeral oration as the mother holding her son's head and celebrating her own bravery.
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"leaves And this is a very very famous st rat agem from Chinese history And there are lots of these st rat age ms..."
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"and where are we going And this is actually cons ider ed the most famous speech in the entire western tradition It is something..."
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"...Athens at this time is Pericles and Pericles is famous for oration which is considered like the most famous speech in um western civilization..."
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"we're going to read from the funeral oration and the thing to remember about funeral oration is that Athens is not at war lots..."
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"is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here numberless are the chances to which as they..."
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"so he's talking to these uh parents whose sons are now dead okay and remember like during the Persian wars the Athenians were like..."
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"...means he's the king of Athens, okay? And he gives his funeral oration during this time."
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"And the funeral oration is considered by many to be the greatest speech ever made, okay? It is beautiful. It is extremely eloquent. It's..."
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"Euripides was probably in the audience, right, because everyone was in the audience when the speech was given, OK? And he reimagines his funeral..."
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"...right so this is this is uh pericles giving his famous funeral oration so every day people are speaking because that's what a person..."
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"...brilliant person. He didn't have the charisma of Julius Caesar. His oration was good, but nowhere near as good as say, Mark Anthony's or..."
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