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He presents the Aeneid as the central epic of the Western tradition for educated readers and as the narrative Dante will reimagine to address this conflict.
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Western tradition
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"...a thousand years, this is the greatest epic poem of the Western tradition. And if you're an educated person, you have to read it...."
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"...yd ides And very few in other classical texts of the western tradition as well Inst ead we have or speech OK So this..."
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"...actually cons ider ed the most famous speech in the entire western tradition It is something that students study in university very very carefully..."
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"...Marx, but also Plato. These are the three baddies of the Western tradition. Plato, Hegel, and Marx. Because they are anti -democratic, they are..."
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"...one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood European cultures. In the Western tradition, there are two main pillars, the Greco -Romans and the Judeo..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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