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Catharsis creates a reciprocal identification in which the tragic character lives in the spectator and the spectator lives in the character.
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The continuing ability of readers to identify with Odysseus, understand Achilles, and predict Achilles' behavior is offered as evidence that the Iliad is eternal and immortal.
Catharsis creates a reciprocal identification in which the tragic character lives in the spectator and the spectator lives in the character.
A reader's ability to imagine Achilles as themselves is treated as evidence that Homer drew on archetypes existing within infinite and eternal consciousness.
"alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into..."
"that oh it's hubris that leads to tragedy and therefore it will make you a much more humble person okay this is what we..."
"Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we..."
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...
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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