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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Speeches
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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,..."
"...And I want to point out that in one of the speeches of Shakespeare that people most like to memorize every bit as much..."
"...had other things to say and a couple of other wonderful speeches that I would have recited. But let me just pose two possible..."
"...what else and again this this is different from his other speeches okay uh yes well um i lost"
"...this opulent full fat a language and that's different from his speeches before where he was very terse very short okay very brief and..."
"...also this is actually pretty long by the standards of virgil's speeches"
"...Like, were there any works that they published, or, like, um, speeches that they made since, yes."
"...this. Peter Thiel for the past few years has been giving speeches around the world talking about the Antichrist."
"...you know like like you have to go and like give speeches and explain that you know like this warning Iran was really about..."
"...have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided...."
"...go back to the 1980s um and just look at his speeches about foreign global trade about globalization his position has remained consistent for..."
"...media in China, as long as I do not do public speeches in China, as long as I don't talk to Chinese reporters, I..."
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