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The immovable bed built around the olive tree is Jiang's image for Odysseus' heart, home, and love: carefully made, rooted, and unable to be moved.
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Olive Tree
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"...I built it myself, no one else. There was a branching olive tree in center court, grown to its full prime, the bowl like..."
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"Okay, do you want to go in? Planting it round with a bronze smoothing ad. I had the skill, I shaped a plumb to..."
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"Again, this is a secret language. This is an intimate language between Odysseus and Penelope. On the surface, it seems as though Penelope is..."
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"for you, and it cannot be moved. And it's something that is the foundation of who I am. So I will never ever leave..."
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"...a crop called olives, okay? So they have a lot of olive trees. And so what happens is the Athenians have no choice but..."
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"...it's hilly, but the hilly terrain is actually good for growing olive trees, okay? Olives. It's also very good at pottery. So because of..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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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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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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