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--- vehicles:trojan-horse [2024/09/21 19:03] – [In Ancient Literature] Humphrey Boa-Gart
+++ vehicles:trojan-horse [2024/09/21 20:19] (current) – [In Ancient Literature] Humphrey Boa-Gart
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 ====== Trojan Horse ======
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+[{{ :vehicles:mykonos_vase.jpg?250|Depiction of the Trojan Horse on a vase, c. 750-650 BC.}}]
+The **Trojan Horse** is a legendary vehicle from Greek mythology, purportedly used by the Greek army at the end of the Trojan War to infiltrate //(and subsequently destroy)// the coastal city of Troy. The vehicle - a giant wooden horse designed by Odysseus, King of Ithaca - was conceived as a way to pierce the walls of Troy after a fruitless 10-year siege of the city. The horse was hollow, holding inside of it //(depending on the account)// 30-50 Greek warriors, including Odysseus himself.
+The Greeks, who had pretended to surrender and sail away, left behind the horse, along with a man named Sinon to present the horse to the Trojans as a gift along with news of the surrender. Sinon successfully managed to convince the Trojans to accept the horse, who brought it //(and unbeknownst to them, Odysseus and his men)// inside the city walls. Having successfully infiltrated Troy, Odysseus's men were able to open the gates to the city, allowing the Greek army //(who had since sailed back under the cover of night)// to destroy Troy from the inside and end the war.
 ===== In Ancient Literature =====
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 > Whatever it is, I'm afraid of Greeks even those bearing gifts."
-In ancient times, there was a whole corpus of texts and poems that described the Trojan War and its aftermath, some of which mentioned the legendary horse. While some of these have survived (ie: [[wp>The Trojan Women]] and the [[wp>Dictys Cretensis|Dictys of Crete]]) many are incomplete, such as [[wp>Iliupersis]] and the [[wp>Little Iliad]]. The horse was also a popular motif on engravings, paintings and vases - again, only of which some have survived to the present day.
+In ancient times, there was a whole corpus of texts and poems that described the Trojan War and its aftermath known as the **Epic Cycle**, some of which mentioned the legendary horse. There was also a whole genre of texts that spawned from the Epic Cycle. While some of these have survived //(ie: [[wp>The Trojan Women]] and the [[wp>Dictys Cretensis|Dictys of Crete]])//, many are incomplete //(ie: [[wp>Iliupersis]] and the [[wp>Little Iliad]])// while others are lost forever. The horse was also a popular motif on engravings, paintings and vases - again, only of which some have survived to the present day.
 ===== The Historical Horse =====
-[{{ :vehicles:mykonos_vase.jpg?250|Depiction of the Trojan Horse on a vase, c. 750-650 BC.}}]
+The historicity of the Trojan Horse //(and the entire Trojan War)// is a continuing matter of debate, as many facts of the matter //(including the original source materials used by Homer and the Epic Cycle)// have been lost forever - typical of events that transpired during the Bronze Age Collapse.
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+There are many theories circulating about what the horse really was. Some people take the legend seriously, which is not implausible. Others see the horse as a creative re-imagining of an ancient [[vehicles:siege engine]], or even a type of [[vehicles:boat]] - and those are possibilities as well. Either way, the legend was popular enough to be one of the most well-known tales of the exploits of the Ancient Greeks, even inspiring a [[tactics:trojan-horse|class of software exploits]] of the same name.
+{{tag>Vehicles History}}
-{{tag>Vehicles History}}

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