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A historical empire reference that Jiang later reads as a code for the current great empire, likely America.
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Rome
A historical empire reference that Jiang later reads as a code for the current great empire, likely America.
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The Aeneid's piety teaches that if one obeys the gods' plan, the world will be made right through the founding of Rome.
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Jiang says the Aeneid reverses the Odyssey's destination: instead of journeying home to love, Aeneas begins in love and must abandon it to found Rome.
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Jiang treats Dido's curse as the Aeneid's political explanation for Rome's hundred-year conflict with Carthage and eventual destruction of Carthaginian civilization.
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Virgil's propaganda makes Roman destruction of Carthage look compelled by Carthage's cursed vengeance, not by Roman savagery.
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The Aeneid inverts not only Homer but history itself to serve Rome's political purposes.
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Roman piety is obedience to fathers, history, and tradition; in Jiang's contrast, Roman greatness comes through conservatism and war rather than Greek openness and curiosity.
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Jiang situates the Aeneid around 30 BCE and treats Greek theater as popular in Rome and as the paragon of Greek civilization that the Aeneid marks as evil.
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Aeneas' first priority during the sack of Troy is to save his king, which Jiang presents as Roman piety and hierarchy rather than Greek personal fulfillment.
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"We conclude Virgil's the Iliad today and as we've discussed Virgil is very much the anti Homer and so what the Iliad is It's..."
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"of Rome, which is Ineos's mission and purpose and So our role our responsibility our duty in life is just to follow this path..."
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"...to go on this epic journey to found the empire of Rome, okay? So you see how it's inverse now. In the Odyssey, the..."
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"You, sun, whose fires scan all works of the earth. And you, Juno, the witness, midwife to my agonies. He came greeted by nightly..."
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"And you, my Tyrians, harry with hatred all his line, his race to come. Make that offering to my ashes. Send it down below...."
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"...the Aeneid is first and foremost political propaganda. Alright? And so, Rome's epic war is with Carthage. Rome and Carthage fought for about a..."
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"...but it's also inverting history to serve the political purposes of Rome."
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"...so augustus caesar who is really considered the first emperor of rome he recognizes that in the long term even though the romans have..."
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"Where can I find some refuge? Where on land, on sea? What's left for me now? A man of so much misery. Nothing among..."
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"Greek theater is very, very popular. The Romans loved Greek theater, and Greek theater is really the very paragon of Greek civilization. And what..."
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"Okay, so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent,..."
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"And his first thought is, where is my king? How do I save my king? Okay so as the Greeks are ravaging the city..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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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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