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He also ties the plant and tree imagery in Purgatory to the tree of knowledge and to the question of whether Adam and Eve's act should condemn descendants.
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Jiang argues that Dante did not have direct access to Homer and instead knew Ulysses through Virgil's Aeneid.
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Students diagnose aristocracy as a system where inherited power blocks social mobility and reproduces the same ruling values across generations.
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Jiang suggests Brunetto partly compensates for childlessness by transmitting faith, hope, love, and education through Dante himself.
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A student says elite homosexuality can allow power and wealth to be controlled through chosen inheritance rather than biological continuation.
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Jiang says Dante cannot yet imagine a radically anti-hereditary order like communism, because accumulated family wealth still appears legitimate from within this historical frame.
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Jiang says Dante's lasting inheritance is not wealth or worldly achievement but remembered action, which is what survives into family memory.
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Jiang says the Divine Comedy can be read as a reimagining of Virgil's epic world, with Dante deliberately writing against the inheritance of the Aeneid.
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"for yourself yeah yeah yeah that's great interpretation so um in purgatory uh dante uses the metaphor plant a lot okay and usually refers..."
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"right okay all right so that's really interesting um so let me make some comments first of all ulysses is there where he has..."
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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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"forever why would that be a bad system yes because power is inherited so you have to win the birth of the aristocracy some..."
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"chance okay so there's no social mobility yes yeah I mean if the same people are in power then and then the parents always..."
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"Okay. And so how, how would you compensate for that? What did he do to compensate for the fact that they didn't have children?..."
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"So this threat, yes? I'm just pushing this logic further. So if the elite only engages in homosexuality, then they don't reproduce. They get..."
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"Right. It's you can't have communism. No one's going to imagine communism at this point and think about how unfair that would be. Right...."
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"Yeah, okay. So what this is saying is that you'll be remembered for your actions, okay? Just as the actions of your father were..."
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"okay so constantine of course is a person who makes christianity the official religion of rome the eagle is the roman empire itself okay..."
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"In her heart, she feels that he's still alive, but in her head, she cannot justify it. She cannot explain it. It's just a..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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