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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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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...
Jiang calls Pericles' transfer and spending of Delian League money official corruption because it turned allied funds into Athenian jobs, monuments, and patronage.
"...built a lot of really impressive buildings including something called the Parthenon. The Parthenon is this great temple to Athena which is a patron..."
"...this gold they spend it on this okay it's called the Parthenon it's still there in Athens if you want to go visit it..."
"...kiddo says taxes collected from city state made athens extremely wealthy parthenon was largely built using funds collected from other greek city -states for..."
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...
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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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