Pasquale Toscano
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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But he's also racialized, so he's dark.
And he's sort of freighted with all of the significance that shows how Thucydides becomes a figure for understanding
the other in all of the complexities that the other is acquiring in the early modern Renaissance periods.
And yet, again, much like Emily just said, just as Thucydides sounds a lot like Achilles, Adam Astor suddenly is making a lot of sense.
And he's, you know, telling Degama and the crew, well, maybe you shouldn't do this and think about the implications.
this audacity.
And of course, from our perspective, we know that this is one of the first opening moves in what's going to be the tragedy of Western imperialism.
And so you think, well, Adam Astor has a point, and maybe we should have listened to his wisdom.
We get these counter-narratives, these critical perspectives in epic because they're trying to represent the total world.
And once they're in there, sometimes they're more persuasive than the party line.
Yeah.
How do we determine the self and the other, right?
I mean, we haven't talked about Ovid much.
This was not the answer I was going to give.
But I think Ovid is constantly sort of pointing up for us, flagging for us the constructiveness and the artifice of these binaries or these distinctions we draw.
I was just going to say, you know, very briefly about the sort of resonance of epic in this moment.
Two things.
One, I think it's a genre that's constantly invested in ideals and reality.
So like, you know, in book six of the Aeneid, for instance, Aeneas' father Anchises says, look, politics is going to be the great art of the Roman people.
And the key to this art is going to be despair, the humble and war down the haughty.
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