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Odysseus' cunning trap and the specific memory of victory that becomes the center of his trauma.
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Trojan horse
Odysseus' cunning trap and the specific memory of victory that becomes the center of his trauma.
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Aeneas' fall-of-Troy narrative is propaganda designed to make Greek culture itself appear like the real Trojan horse: philosophy, theater, rhetoric, and poetry as deceptive forces that poison Rome from within.
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In this Roman lesson, trusting the enemy is foolish because benevolence toward the Greek captive permits the horse to enter Troy and opens the city to slaughter.
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The quoted wooden-horse passage presents Troy as doomed once it accepts the horse, with Achaean power hidden inside and death bearing down on the city.
diagnosis
Odysseus' worldview collapses because he came to Troy for justice, legacy, and family reunion, but the Greek victory destroys families and becomes slaughter.
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Jiang begins the Aeneid contrast by noting that Virgil opens with the Trojan Horse, where Greek eloquence makes a false story believable.
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In Jiang's reading, the real Trojan Horse in the Aeneid is Greek culture itself: logic, philosophy, and theater enter by beauty and persuasion and destroy the host culture from within.
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"to go off to the Italian peninsula because the gods have told him that he is fated he is destined to found the Roman..."
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"...leave the beaches of Troy and they leave behind a wooden horse. There's a huge debate among the Trojans as to what to do..."
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"...you know we can't take a risk let's just destroy this horse throw it into the sea and then what happens is that a..."
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"...soldier and then he will allow the Trojans to bring the horse into Troy and at night the Greek soldiers will escape from the..."
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"And his first thought is, where is my king? How do I save my king? Okay so as the Greeks are ravaging the city..."
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"...was. But come now, shift your ground. Sing of the wooden horse Epeius built with Athena's help. The cunning trap that good Odysseus brought..."
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"...in hiding. In the heart of Troy's assembly, dark in that horse, the Trojans dragged themselves to the city heights. Now it stood there,..."
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"...how troops of Achaeans broke from cover, streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy. He sang how left and right they..."
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"The problem is after Odysseus comes up with a Trojan horse, they sneak into the city and they open the gates. The Greeks come..."
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"...Okay. So, neither the Iliad or the Odyssey talks about the Trojan Horse. But the Iliad, the first thing it does is talk about..."
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"...And to ensure their safe journey home, they built a wooden horse for the gods to win their favor. Okay. And the story is..."
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"...traumatized by the horrors of war remember how he constructs the Trojan horse but and he constructs the Trojan horse in order to return..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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