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A paragon of Greek civilization recoded by the Aeneid as deception and manipulation.
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Greek theater
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The Aeneid's Sinon episode casts Greek theater, philosophy, and rhetoric as deceptive crafts used to manipulate good but naive Trojans.
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Jiang situates the Aeneid around 30 BCE and treats Greek theater as popular in Rome and as the paragon of Greek civilization that the Aeneid marks as evil.
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Roman triumphs, Viking funerals, and Greek theater are parallel communal forms, but they generate different kinds of collective consciousness: sacrifice and domination for Rome, funeral memory for Vikings, and perspective-changing empathy for Greeks.
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Greek civilization is imaginative because theater practices empathy by writing war from the enemy's perspective.
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Jiang frames Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as prophets of democracy who teach Athenians how to practice democratic citizenship.
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"thick of it all a young soldier hands shackled behind his back with much shouting trojan shepherds were hauling him toward the king he'd..."
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"Where can I find some refuge? Where on land, on sea? What's left for me now? A man of so much misery. Nothing among..."
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"Greek theater is very, very popular. The Romans loved Greek theater, and Greek theater is really the very paragon of Greek civilization. And what..."
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"Again this must come from a certain mythology. Okay? That's the only way we can explain this practice. this ship aflame after which other..."
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"...to the funeral guys. The Greeks on the other hand had theater to build the community's collective consciousness. Theater. So there were no professional..."
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"The theater was it's very different. They didn't practice any human sacrifice. They didn't parade slaves around. What they did was often was write..."
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"...we are doing Socrates and Plato today. Last class we did Greek theater and remember I said that Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eupodes, they're really..."
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"...looks like you have an amphitheater which is where they stage Greek theater you have a gymnasium you have um an agora like they're..."
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"...at this time. But ultimately, these ideas conquer the world, right? Greek theater, Greek philosophy spread all around the world. And the main reason..."
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"...want me to clarify. Okay. So next class we will do Greek theater. And then after that we'll do Greek philosophy which includes Plato,..."
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