Jiang says the Iliad invents literature by refusing to tell the story only from the Greek side and by making the Trojans more heroic, courageous, and brave than the Greeks.
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Trojans
Jiang says the Iliad invents literature by refusing to tell the story only from the Greek side and by making the Trojans more heroic, courageous, and brave than the Greeks.
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"...Greek side, he tells a story from both the Greek and Trojan side. In fact, when you read the Iliad, you'll discover that the..."
"...okay they long to return to each other in during the Trojan War Odysseus becomes traumatized by the horrors of war remember how he..."
"he sees himself how terrible war is he came to the Trojan Wars he came to Troy in order to restore a family right..."
"...this point he should return hector's body for ransom to the trojans so the trojans can bury him but instead achilles spends all his..."
"...caught wind of a plot of foot the first ascends the trojans are on the move she fears everything now even with all secure..."
"the trojans sorry sorry um you know what uh sorry"
"...own hands, I would fortify a second Troy, to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grignion Apollo's Oracle says that I must..."
"...again I score into what they're like would then trill the Trojan ships bend to the Trojans every last demand so pleased are they..."
"...driven into madness. She's like, should I go and beg the Trojans to let me on their ship and be a slave girl, okay?..."
"...up from my bones, you avengers still unknown, to stalk those Trojan settlers, hunt with fire and iron. Now or in time to come,..."
"...another warlord. And so it starts off a war between the Trojans and Tarnas. Okay? And ultimately, this leads to a final conflict. A..."
"...leave behind a wooden horse. There's a huge debate among the Trojans as to what to do with this horse and"
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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