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7 timestamped hits 5 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-03-18, day precision Aliases: wooden-horses

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Wooden Horse

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to leave the beaches of Troy and they leave behind a wooden horse. There's a huge debate among the Trojans as to what to..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to leave the beaches of Troy and they leave behind a wooden horse. There's a huge debate among the Trojans as to what to..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Poem That Poisoned Homer (2026-03-18, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Poem That Poisoned Homer; How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil?; Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield.

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Key Notes

Mythic narrative as presented in the lecture.

evidence

The conventional Trojan War story ends with Odysseus's wooden horse, Greek soldiers entering Troy at night, opening the gates, and slaughtering the Trojans.

Timestamped Evidence

Rome's War To Defeat Homer

2024-11-21, day precision · Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome

Transcript

"...wake up one day and they find this huge Trojan Horse, wooden horse, outside the gates. And most are like, this must be a..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield

2025-11-06, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...

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