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Jiang says Dante never read Homer directly, so his Ulysses comes through later authors rather than firsthand knowledge of the Iliad or Odyssey.
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Because the Bible has been redacted many times and contains multiple sources, Jiang says most people understand it through preachers rather than reading it in its entirety.
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Because Rome destroyed Carthage and its books, Jiang says Carthage must be reconstructed from Greek and Roman testimony, archaeology, and Phoenician context.
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"Okay. So, Dante never read Homer. So he never read the Iliad and the Odyssey. And so his conception of, Ulysses, comes from other..."
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"...explained to you last class there are at least four different sources in the Bible randomly. And it's been edited constantly over the centuries...."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, if we just do a compare and contrast, we could easily figure out, oh, it's the Roman..."
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"the conflict started in about 300 BCE, the Romans and the Greeks had nice things to say about the Carthaginians. Okay? They were good..."
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"same time, we've done a lot of archaeological excavations around Carthage and we have found human remains that show signs of human sacrifice. Okay?..."
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