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Speech making becomes the basis of ritualized public action: to get something done, one stands before people, makes a speech, and creates a reality they can accept.
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Speech making becomes the basis of ritualized public action: to get something done, one stands before people, makes a speech, and creates a reality they can accept.
"Because when you memorize the Iliad, you learn how to make a great speech. All right? And you understood that for me to make..."
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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