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Priam's greatness comes from refusing revenge: he kneels to and kisses the hands of the man who killed his sons instead of killing Achilles when he has the chance.
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Greatness
Jiang states a reversal of greatness: the greater a person is, the more they suffer from hubris, which can only lead to tragedy.
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Greatness does not come from defeating enemies but from forgiving them.
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Jiang states a reversal of greatness: the greater a person is, the more they suffer from hubris, which can only lead to tragedy.
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"The majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his knees and kissed his hands, those terrible, man..."
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"Okay, so the contrast, right? Okay, so the contrast, right? Achilles slaughtered many of Priam's sons in battle, okay? And what the majestic king..."
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"...by this he is awed by the majesty of priam okay greatness does not come from defeating your enemies it comes from forgiving your..."
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"they are conceived the good affections are strengthened by pity indignation terror and sorrow and the exact calm is prolonged from the satiety of..."
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"...it's courage. Our myth is the nation. Our myth is the greatness of the nation. And to this myth, this greatness, which we want..."
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"...america the true america who will restore america to its former greatness and um i i i would not be surprised that there are..."
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"...long -lost memories, go back in the past and remember their greatness, they come together as an energetic, open, and cohesive society, okay? So..."
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"...this story doesn't really make any sense, right? And that's the greatness of Homer because he's telling us the complexity of human psychology. Odysseus..."
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"its perfection ever courses courses with a moral intellectual greatness of the age all right so the theater at athens provoked these tremendous feelings..."
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"...it's courage. Our myth is the nation. Our myth is the greatness of the nation. And through"
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"this myth, this greatness which we want to translate into a total reality we subordinate everything else. Okay? Fascism is the belief that the..."
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"...a public school system that becomes a source for Prussia's future greatness. And to put this in context, it's only over 100 years later..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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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