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Jiang judges Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia as stupid because he should have been able to foresee that murdering a beloved daughter would provoke retaliatory destruction inside his own house.
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Iphigenia
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the winds? And the prophet says, if you kill your daughter, Iphigenia, Artemis will be appeased, okay? Okay, so Agamemnon kills Iphigenia, even though..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the winds? And the prophet says, if you kill your daughter, Iphigenia, Artemis will be appeased, okay? Okay, so Agamemnon kills Iphigenia, even though..."
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Jiang treats Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia as a morally unnecessary choice that launches the cycle of revenge rather than as a tragic necessity.
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"...the winds? And the prophet says, if you kill your daughter, Iphigenia, Artemis will be appeased, okay? Okay, so Agamemnon kills Iphigenia, even though..."
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"...story of the Greeks, what happens to Agamemnon because he killed Iphigenia? Do you guys know the story?"
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"Yeah, I think Iphigenia's mother, Clytemnestra, revenged on Agamemnon."
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"...the gods. He tells Agamemnon, you have to sacrifice your daughter, Iphigenia, and at this point, Agamemnon should be like, I'm not gonna do..."
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"So he kills his daughter, Iphigenia. The wind is released from the skies, and they set sail to Troy, okay? And we know what..."
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"...And so when Agamemnon comes home, Clytemnestra kills him for killing Iphigenia, okay? So... Should... Could Agamemnon have known this? Could Agamemnon have predicted..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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