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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.
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Troy
The Trojan War legend begins as a mythic escalation of status, sex, divine rivalry, and trade conflict around Troy.
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Jiang glosses the attack on Deiphobus' house as an attempt to kill the king, emphasizing the violence hidden behind the heroic song.
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Odysseus' original justifications collapse because the Greeks' victory destroyed every family in Troy and caused suffering to thousands of women and children.
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The Iliad's ending prophesies Troy's destruction: Hector's son will die, the men and children will be killed, and the women enslaved.
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The Trojan War legend begins as a mythic escalation of status, sex, divine rivalry, and trade conflict around Troy.
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Troy matters strategically because it controls Aegean trade routes; in Jiang’s frame, the Trojan War is a trade war.
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Jiang says the Greeks were mainly pirates at the beginning, and the Mycenaean assault on Troy was driven by Troy’s strategic control of the Aegean Sea.
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Troy is framed as the central logistics hub and toll gate of the Bronze Age world: whoever controlled it could profit because everyone had to pass through it.
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"...famed Odysseus' men already crouched in hiding. In the heart of Troy's assembly, dark in that horse, the Trojans dragged themselves to the city..."
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"...from cover, streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy. He sang how left and right they ravaged Decebe's city, sang how..."
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"Defebus isn't a name for pride, okay? They want to go kill the king. You want to go in?"
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"...is traumatized by this woman being traumatized because he came to Troy to save the woman, right? He sees Penelope in this woman. He..."
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"This is not a war about family. This is a war about destroying families. And what legacy am I leaving my son? How will..."
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"...because you are dead, her great guardian. You who always defended Troy, who kept her loyal wives and helpless children safe. All who will..."
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"...dead. So the Greeks are going to come and destroy of Troy. So you're a Greek, okay? And all your life, you've heard about..."
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"...finds this person named paris and paris is a prince of troy and so paris meets the three goddesses and of"
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"course each goddess is trying to bribe paris so hera says paris if you pick me i will give you a kingdom i will..."
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"...but the entire Trojan people, okay? They're going to wipe out Troy from the face of the earth. They want revenge. Another problem is,..."
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"...the most important strategically in this world? It's called this city. Troy. Right? Troy. Which is why we have the Trojan War. We will..."
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"...make money, actually, is by controlling trade routes. Okay? That's what Troy is. Troy is a control of a trade route. And so, that's..."
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