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Jiang says the Greek education system was simple because it centered on memorizing the Iliad.
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Greek education
Jiang argues that one function of the Library of Alexandria was to standardize Greek culture by standardizing texts and creating commentaries, handbooks, footnotes, chapters, codices, and indexes.
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Paul's Roman citizenship implies, for Jiang, a wealthy elite family background and a secular Greek education.
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Jiang says liberal arts education transmitted the Greeks to later thinkers such as Kant, Hume, and Hegel, making Greek reading the common education of later great thinkers.
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Jiang argues that one function of the Library of Alexandria was to standardize Greek culture by standardizing texts and creating commentaries, handbooks, footnotes, chapters, codices, and indexes.
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Jiang says standardization made Greek education accessible to non-Greeks, so people in China can read Homer, Greek tragedy, and Plato even without being culturally Greek.
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"Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help..."
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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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"He himself is Jewish. He's a Roman citizen. And that's pretty rare for a Jewish person. And you only get citizenship by doing three..."
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"...a cohesive cultural identity. And they did that by promoting a Greek education, okay? But not only that, but they had to bring in..."
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"...codices different ways, okay, indexes. So the point was to make Greek education available and accessible to anyone. And what this means is, we..."
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"...you are a Hellenized Jew, meaning you grew up with a Greek education, and you're in the Roman Empire, you have access to all..."
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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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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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