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Jiang's merged ancient function for figures like Homer: accessing universal truth, transmitting it in words, and constructing civilization.
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Jiang's merged ancient function for figures like Homer: accessing universal truth, transmitting it in words, and constructing civilization. A combined historical function in which the poet speaks beautiful truth, the prophet speaks eternal truth, and the teacher helps listeners understand themselves through that truth.
"...Okay? So in this time in history, poets are prophets are teachers. These are the same function."
"Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we..."
"...Does that make sense? And so the prophet, the poet, the teacher, again, same idea where, why is the person a poet? Because how..."
"...and helps them better understand themselves. Okay? So that's poet. The teacher is like, okay, how do you understand yourself? You understand yourself by..."
A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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