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Greek tragedy Jiang uses as a model of reflective empathy for enemies.
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Trojan Women
Greek tragedy Jiang uses as a model of reflective empathy for enemies.
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Euripides's anti-imperial play, read by Jiang as a direct response to Athens's violence at Melos.
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Homer forces Greek readers to imagine what it is like to be a Trojan woman facing the sack of her city, the murder of her family, and enslavement.
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Jiang reads Trojan Women as a direct response to Athens's attack on Melos, confronting Athenians with the suffering their empire inflicted on women and children.
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"...the men and all the children are killed, and all the women are enslaved. Okay, so there's Anjumaki saying, I'm going to be enslaved,..."
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"city will be sacked, your husband will be killed, your children will be murdered, and you'll be put on a ship to be enslaved..."
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"Okay, so all Roman school children have to memorize this poetry. And obviously, if you are a Roman school child, and you know that..."
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"But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War,..."
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"...attacked Melos, they killed all the men and enslaved all the women. So, in many ways, the children and women is a direct response..."
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"Okay? And been forced to be the mistress or concubine of the Greek, uh, heroes like Odysseus. Okay? Then you have Andromache. Andromache um,..."
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