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The figure Jiang says emerges once centralized censorship collapses, setting up the next Iliad lecture.
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Homer
The figure Jiang says emerges once centralized censorship collapses, setting up the next Iliad lecture.
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Glossary
The poet who created the Iliad and Odyssey and, in Jiang's model, introduced a new way for Greeks to imagine the world.
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Jiang argues that Dante and Homer independently reach the same framework: love expands imagination, and imagination can heal trauma and enlarge the universe.
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For Jiang's Homer, love is above the gods because God is love and human beings contain a candle that seeks to return to the light.
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Jiang says the Aeneid turns love into the opposite of Homeric love: instead of empowering and resurrecting the self, love makes Dido disintegrate.
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The Aeneid inverts not only Homer but history itself to serve Rome's political purposes.
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Jiang says Virgil is plagiarizing Homer in order to invert and subvert Homer, not merely borrowing a scene.
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The great books, especially Homer and Dante, are presented as an education in what love is because love is where God is.
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Homer functions as the infrastructure of the Greek mental worldview because educated Greeks memorized and performed the Iliad and Odyssey before audiences.
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A memorable act can change history by implanting itself throughout the universe for future generations; Homer draws such memories from the universe into the Iliad.
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"that our compulsion our will and desire it is always to return to the source to do so we have to love someone else..."
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"...work. What's amazing about this is the Odyssey was written by Homer, and this is written by Dante. What's amazing about what happened is..."
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"...to the Iliad and the Odyssey. He doesn't actually know what Homer wrote and said. But working independently, they were able to come to..."
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"Okay, so again, Virgil is the anti -Homer. And what I mean by that is that if Homer were Aeneas, then what Homer would..."
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"okay so again the idea here is for Homer love is what gives you strength love is what allows you to resurrect yourself okay..."
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"...basically inversion. So that's what the Aeneid is doing. It's inverting Homer, but it's also inverting history to serve the political purposes of Rome."
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"...stretch my hands to you. Alright, so basically, Virgil is plagiarizing Homer. But he's plagiarizing in a way as to invert and subvert Homer,..."
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"...that's what the great books are about. The great books, even Homer and Dante, they really think deeply about what love is because in..."
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"We've read the Iliad and the Odyssey. So Homer becomes the basis for Greek civilization, meaning that all educated Greeks, they memorize the Iliad..."
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"is what has happened when the group of madness sees is one who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to..."
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"...future generations, all right? And that's what's happening, okay? So what Homer is doing is he is drawing from the universe this memory and..."
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"...This will become now part of the universe. And how? Because Homer is able to access it, okay? This might have happened somewhere. He..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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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...
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