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Jiang reads Homer's Odyssey as a journey home to family rather than a celebration of endless outward exploration.
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Homecoming
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Returning home after a long absence is presented as a distinct happiness type, tied to re-entry, recognition, and belonging.
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Jiang treats returning home after time away as a paradigmatic happiness experience centered on restoration of place and belonging.
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Jiang says the Odyssey is fundamentally a homecoming story in which Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus must rediscover love after twenty years of separation.
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Jiang frames the Odyssey as the sequel to the Iliad and as a family story about homecoming after war, trauma, and heartbreak.
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The Odyssey is defined as the journey in which Odysseus repairs his soul enough to go home.
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The quoted Iliad passage shows the Greek army rushing for home like storm-driven waves when given permission to leave.
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The Iliad passage shows Odysseus not boarding the ships even though the army is leaving, which Jiang reads as evidence that Odysseus is not simply eager to return home.
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"damides and that's why they're shoving together um point three is that if you actually read homer's odyssey it's a very different take on..."
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"To return home. After. A year. Of studying abroad. And stuff. Like. The minute. I hit the airport. I'm like. Yeah. I'm back."
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"Exactly. Right. Returning home. Right. I would say. Returning home. Yeah. Exactly. What else. Yes."
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"...as we discussed last lecture, the Odyssey is really about a homecoming. About three members of a family, Odysseus, Penelope, and Timarchus, who after..."
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"...Iliad, and it's a family story. It's a story about a homecoming, and there are three main characters, right? There's Odysseus, sorry, Odysseus, who..."
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"Because again, he's abandoning his family for 20 years, okay? So what's going to happen is this. This is the worldview that Odysseus has..."
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"Testing his men, but he only made the spirit race inside their chests, all the rank and file who'd never heard his plan. And..."
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"The bright -eyed goddess Pallas lost no time. Down she flashed from the peaks of Mount Olympus, quickly reached the ships and found Odysseus..."
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"So, um, so everyone's trying to go home and you would think that Odysseus would be the first person to get on a ship..."
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"Okay, so he's a broken man. He's a very different person from the Iliad. Okay? So, now the question then is why? What happened..."
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"Odysseus, master of many exploits, praised the singer. I respect you, Demodocus, more than any man alive. Surely the muse has taught you, Zeus'..."
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"So he's feeling all this pain because of memories of the Trojan War. But he recognizes that if he's willing to go home, because..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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