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Jiang's civilizational thesis that poetry and poetic language ground everything a people know and do, exemplified by Homer creating civilization.
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Poetry as basis of civilization
Jiang's civilizational thesis that poetry and poetic language ground everything a people know and do, exemplified by Homer creating civilization.
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"...opinion or institution is poetry. Poetry is the basis of all civilization."
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"...create, okay? Does it make sense, guys? That's how Homer created civilization. Because God willed it that Homer speak truth. And willed that this..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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