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Homer functions as the infrastructure of the Greek mental worldview because educated Greeks memorized and performed the Iliad and Odyssey before audiences.
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Greek civilization
Homer functions as the infrastructure of the Greek mental worldview because educated Greeks memorized and performed the Iliad and Odyssey before audiences.
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Jiang says this Odyssey legacy becomes the foundation of Greek civilization, which he calls humanity's greatest civilization.
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Jiang presents the Iliad as the foundation of Greek civilization and Greek civilization as a primary foundation of Western civilization.
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Jiang says traditional Greek arete has two major forms: war fighting and speech making.
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Jiang links the ritualized culture of public speech to the emergence of democracy.
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One poem, the Iliad, could give birth to an entire civilization because it was alive, powerful, and connected to the universe or monad.
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Jiang presents Percy Shelley's Defense of Poetry as an explanatory support for how Homer and poetry generated Greek civilization.
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Jiang claims the Iliad created the Greek civilization, which he calls the greatest civilization on earth in history.
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"...the Iliad and the Odyssey. So Homer becomes the basis for Greek civilization, meaning that all educated Greeks, they memorize the Iliad and the..."
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"...this story, this legacy, is what will become the foundation of Greek civilization, which is humanity's greatest civilization, okay?"
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"So, the Iliad is the foundation of Greek civilization, which is the greatest civilization in human history, the most creative. It gave us Plato,..."
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"Because when you memorize the Iliad, you learn how to make a great speech. All right? And you understood that for me to make..."
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"And how it becomes different is that you implant your own consciousness, your own understanding, into the Iliad. So it becomes a shared creation...."
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"alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into..."
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"Your mind is an antenna, okay? Your mind is an antenna to the universe, right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though..."
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"...you certain aspects okay so he's talking about how homer created greek civilization and um homer was a bard poet but then heavy influence..."
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"...the Iliad created the greatest civilization on earth in history, the Greek civilization."
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"...it's Aeschylus. Okay? This is the greatest thinkers, greatest intellectuals of Greek civilization. They're all derivative of Homer. Okay? They're all operating within Homer's..."
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"Okay, so all Roman school children have to memorize this poetry. And obviously, if you are a Roman school child, and you know that..."
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"This is a very idea of civilization. And what do the Romans do? They do this, okay? Gladiators. They watch lions eat people. They..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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