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Published · transcript-backedEmily Wilson: belief
27 Mar 2019 Conversations with Tyler Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
“If you’re asking about Pericles, I would say that, if I had spent longer studying Pericles’s speech in Thucydides, I might have a deeper understanding of the rhetorical tropes that are being used and of the ways that rhetoric interacts with ideology within the representation in that passage, within the representations in multiple literary texts of that period.”
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- 27 Mar 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But what will that cash out into? Like, if I ask you, what might you understand about ancient Athens that an ancient historian would not as well? What would you say concretely? If you’re asking about Pericles, I would say that, if I had spent longer studying Pericles’s speech in Thucydides, I might have a deeper understanding of the rhetorical tropes that are being used and of the ways that rhetoric interacts with ideology within the representation in that passage, within the representations in multiple literary texts of that period. I think I might have a deeper understanding of how cultural representations operate in classical Athens. But you end up thinking, “Well, they’re funnier than we thought. They’re more sardonic than we thought. They’re more bitter than we thought.” What’s the final takeaway in terms of your understanding of that time?…
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