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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...clear. Okay? All right. So, let's go to the PowerPoint. The Greek Legacy. Okay. All right. So, as I discussed the geography of Greece..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...clear. Okay? All right. So, let's go to the PowerPoint. The Greek Legacy. Okay. All right. So, as I discussed the geography of Greece..."
Jiang begins the Greek legacy by saying Greeks created a new way of being human, and Homeric oral poetry cultivated empathy and imagination by letting listeners enter Homer's world and become Achilles or Odysseus.
"So there are three aspects of the Greek legacy I want to discuss. The first aspect is the Greeks created a new way of..."
"...clear. Okay? All right. So, let's go to the PowerPoint. The Greek Legacy. Okay. All right. So, as I discussed the geography of Greece..."
"...about so in many ways Shakespeare saw himself as continuing the Greek legacy all right and the fact that we're focusing on questions like..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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