The Three Kingdoms and the Trojan War: Why Epics Turn Chaos Into Moral Order
War stories don’t survive for thousands of years just because they’re dramatic. They survive because they teach. Both Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Trojan War tradition (centred on the Iliad) were born from worlds where political order had cracked, alliances were fragile, and reputations could decide life or death. Yet when we read […]