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The long speeches in the Iliad are long because the speakers are not merely exchanging responses; they are trying to create realities.
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Iliad speeches
The long speeches in the Iliad are long because the speakers are not merely exchanging responses; they are trying to create realities.
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"Achilles gets in a fight with Agamemnon. He refuses to fight. And the Trojans, led by Hector, are destroying the Greeks. So, Agamemnon and..."
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"They're trying to create their own reality. Okay? So with speech, what you're really trying to do is you're trying to project a movie..."
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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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