Glossary
The Greek captive whose theatrical story persuades the Trojans to trust the horse.
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Sinon
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And one of them who seemed to take offense. Perhaps at being named so squalidly, struck with his fist at Adam's rigid belly. It..."
Key Notes
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The canto makes falsifiers quarrel about relative guilt, but Virgil treats Dante's attraction to that quarrel as spiritually base.
definition
Jiang defines canto 30 as a zone of falsifiers that includes alchemists, impostors, counterfeiters, false witnesses, and related figures such as Sinon, Master Adam, Gianni Schicchi, and Myrrha.
diagnosis
Jiang says the quarrel between Master Adam and Sinon comes from their rage at being together despite being different types of falsifiers.
model
Jiang accepts the student's formulation that Master Adam and Sinon are alike because both manipulate people's perception of reality rather than reality itself.
diagnosis
Jiang analogizes Sinon to a fake-news reporter, making false witness a modern media problem rather than just an ancient military trick.
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Jiang says the quarrel between the coin counterfeiter and Sinon also implies a deeper accusation that Virgil counterfeited or plagiarized poetry.
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Jiang retells the Trojan horse story as a failed siege overturned by deception, with Sinon as the figure who changes Trojan judgment and lets the trap inside.
model
Jiang interprets Sinon's speech as a temptation strategy: like Satan using lyric force, he first wins sympathy in order to open the city to destruction.
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"And one of them who seemed to take offense. Perhaps at being named so squalidly, struck with his fist at Adam's rigid belly. It..."
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"Do not forget the horse, you perjurer, replied the one who had the bloated belly. May you be plagued because the whole world knows..."
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"So I became within my speechlessness. I wanted to excuse myself and did excuse myself, although I knew it not. Lest shame would wash..."
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"Okay, all right, so this is a very complicated canto, okay? There are lots of individuals and there's a lot going on, okay? So..."
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"And so the two people who have an argument are Sinon and Master Adam, right? Master Adam is a counterfeiter. And Sinon is a..."
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"...would Master Adam, who's a counterfeiter, why would he argue with Sinon about who's worse? And this is actually the first time in Divine..."
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"Yes? Because each of them feel like the other one shouldn't be at the same level where they are, you know? Like, every one..."
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"Yeah, yeah. So, they're different, right? And they're trying to figure out, like, why they're together. And they kind of piss that they're together...."
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"...the nature of reality. He changed the nature of money. And Sinon changed, um, I mean, he basically, yeah, made the Trojans believe that..."
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"Yeah. So, the similarity is that both are changing the perception of reality, right? Both are manipulating the perception of reality. They're not alchemists..."
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"...last class, we talked about how the counterfeiter was arguing with Sinon, the man who tricked the Trojans into letting in the Trojan horse...."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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