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vehicles:trojan-horse [2024/09/21 20:09] – [The Historical Horse] Humphrey Boa-Gart | vehicles:trojan-horse [2024/09/21 20:19] (current) – [In Ancient Literature] Humphrey Boa-Gart | ||
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> Whatever it is, I'm afraid of Greeks even those bearing gifts." | > 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 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> | + | 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> |
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The historicity of the Trojan Horse //(and the entire Trojan War)// is a continuing matter of debate, as many facts of the matter // | The historicity of the Trojan Horse //(and the entire Trojan War)// is a continuing matter of debate, as many facts of the matter // | ||
- | 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: | + | 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: |
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