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Achilles' choice of a young heroic death at Troy over old age at home illustrates Jiang's claim that Achilles can flourish only through fighting and glory.
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Heroic death
Achilles' choice of a young heroic death at Troy over old age at home illustrates Jiang's claim that Achilles can flourish only through fighting and glory.
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"Okay? So, these are the two great characters in Greek civilization. Achilles, the great warrior, and Odysseus, the great orator. Okay? Eudaimonia means flourishing...."
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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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