The Role Of Nestor In The Iliad Video
A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey: Crash Course Literature 201 The Role Of Nestor In The IliadFactual explanations[ edit ] The Phoenician ship called hippos, from the Assyrian city of Khorsabad, 8th century BC There has been speculation that the Trojan Horse may have been a battering ram or other sort of siege engine resembling, to some extent, a horse, and that the description of the use of this device was then transformed into a myth by later oral historians who were not present at the battle and were unaware of that meaning of the name.
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Assyrians then used siege machines with animal names that were often covered with dampened horse hides to protect against flaming arrows; it is possible that the Trojan Horse was such. Some authors have suggested that the gift might also have been a ship, with warriors hidden inside.
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The theory is supported by the fact that archaeological digs have found that Troy VI was heavily damaged in an earthquake [26] but is hard to square with the mythological claim that Poseidon himself built the walls of Troy in the first place. There are few ancient before BC depictions of the Trojan Horse surviving.
The one from Mykonos see figure is Nesyor as the Mykonos vase.
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