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Jiang groups Sargon, Philip, Julius Caesar, and Genghis Khan as great conquerors who share a mentor-betrayal pattern.
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Philip
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang argues that Philip's remarriage to Cleopatra Eurydice destabilized Macedonian succession because she was Macedonian and any son from that marriage would be more legitimate than Alexander.
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Jiang says Philip was assassinated by his bodyguard in 336 BCE and that no one knows why it happened.
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"...history, and I'll list four right now, okay? Sargon of Akkad, Philip of Macedon, Julius Caesar, and Genghis Khan, you will see they are..."
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"He was a cupbearer to the King Ur -Zaba of Kish. Kish is one of the city -states in Sumeria. Now, guys, cupbearer is..."
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"...in order to achieve his ambition. Well, that's also true for Philip of Macedon. So Philip of Macedon, he's a prince of Macedon. And..."
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"...great conquerors are. But at the same time, let's remember this. Philip II had a really talented subordinate in Parmenion."
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"...king of Macedon. Now, I want to explain the circumstances of Philip's death, because it's very important for us to understand the sort of..."
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"So Philip, at this point, already has six or seven wives. The problem is that only one of his wives, named Olympias, has given..."
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"Okay, and actually at the wedding ceremony Between Eurydice and Philip, Attalus gave a toast and he said here's a toast and I pray..."
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"...literature. Got, uh, Gerda with false Milton paradise loss. You have Philip Pullman who wrote his dark materials trilogy. Um, but that's how it..."
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"historic material is by philip pullman what what what historical materials is that a novel yeah by by what it's about growing up and..."
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"as a person why like like philip pullman reading reading his dark materials has given me a new perspective what happens after i die..."
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"...would that be profitable i i don't understand that um so philip says you call kenneth's mark carney the champion foreign capital yeah he..."
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"...unite Greece, okay? Now, who's doing all this? His name is Philip II, okay? Philip II is probably the greatest military genius, one of..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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