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Thucydides writes in a Homeric way because his characters give speeches, but unlike Homer he applies that mode to real people and real events.
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Thucydides writes in a Homeric way because his characters give speeches, but unlike Homer he applies that mode to real people and real events.
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"...a very Homer way in that his characters are always giving speeches. The difference, of course, is that Thucydides is writing about real people,..."
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"...have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided...."
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"...well as Prime Minister Stormer to the British people. In both speeches by Stormer and Albanese, they said to the people, we know that..."
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"...thing is that there are fake AI videos of him giving speeches and it's pretty blatant. These are fake. These are fake. So people..."
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"...decision is to be made people get together and they give speeches whoever gives the best speech gets the most votes and then that..."
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"...reality that others submit to. An example, of course, is the speeches between Odysseus and Achilles. Okay? Odysseus and Achilles. Alright, so remember the..."
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"...long speech. Now, the question for us is, why are the speeches in the Iliad so goddamn long? Right? Because Odysseus can simply say,..."
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"...realities. It's a war of narratives. And you create narratives through speeches. Okay? But not only that, but there's certain techniques to speeches. Because..."
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"...All right? So they're trying to create these narratives through their speeches. And they have these techniques. And guess what? The Greeks. Their education..."
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"...World view. What they're really trying to do is through their speeches, they're trying to control reality. Okay? Through their speeches, they're trying to..."
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"...think they're stupid. Okay? They can't write essays. They can't give speeches. And so therefore we think they're stupid. But they're not stupid. It's..."
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"...not care, okay? He gets up and he's tweeting, he's giving speeches, he's talking to reporters. He's the happiest man alive."
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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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