Kibitzers, welcome to the middle of Palindrome Week.
Today is probably the day the Trojan Horse was left as a “peace offering” by the Greeks. I don't know how they could know the date if they can't agree on what century the war was fought, but precision and accuracy are two different things.
In Greek mythology, trojan horse This wooden horse is said to have been used by the Greeks to enter the city of Troy and win the war during the Trojan War.Trojan horses are not mentioned in Homer's writings. Iliadthe poem ends before the war ends and is only briefly mentioned in this poem. Odyssey. but, aeneid According to Virgil, after ten years of fruitless sieges, the Greeks, on Odysseus' orders, built a huge wooden horse and hid selected troops inside, including Odysseus himself. The Greeks pretended to flee by ship, and the Trojans brought horses into the city as trophies of victory. That night, the Greeks crawled out from their horses and opened the gates for the rest of the Greeks, who returned under cover of darkness. The Greeks invaded and destroyed the city, and the war ended.
Metaphorically speaking, a “Trojan horse” has come to mean a trick or strategy that lures an enemy into a fortress or location where the target is safely protected. A malicious computer program that tricks a user into running it is also known as a “Trojan horse” or simply “Trojan horse.”
The main ancient sources for this story remain. aeneid Virgil's Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus.This story was widely covered Little Iliad And that Troy's bag, both part of the epic cycle, but these have survived only as fragments and epitomes. Odysseus was the chief designer of the Trojan Horse, which is why Homer mentions it in his writings. Odyssey.[1]In Greek tradition, horses are called “wooden horses” (δουράτεος ἵππος Durateos Hippo Homeric/Ionic Greek (Odyssey 8.512); δούρειος ἵππος, doureios hippopotamus Attic Greek). According to Dictys Cretensis, the idea of building the Trojan Horse came from Helenus, who prophesied that the Greeks would have to sacrifice the horse to Athena.[2]
What was it actually?
It has been speculated that the story of the Trojan horse resulted from a later poet's creative misinterpretation of the actual historical use of siege weapons at Troy. Animal names are often used for military machines, such as the Roman onager and various Bronze Age Assyrian siege engines. These siege engines were covered with damp horse hides to protect them from flaming arrows.[15] Pausanias, who lived in the second century CE, wrote in his book: greece description“Everyone who does not attribute the sheer stupidity to the Phrygians knows that Epeius' work was a ruse to break through the walls of Troy.”[16] The Phrygians were the Trojans.
Some authors suggest that the gift may have been a ship, with warriors hidden inside.[17] The term used for putting men on horses is the term used by ancient Greek writers to describe putting men on ships, and is similar to Paris' construction of ships at the beginning of the Trojan Horse story. Finally, assemble the horse.[18] In the past, ships were called “seahorses.” Odyssey.[19] This view has recently received support from naval archaeology.[20][21] Ancient documents and images show that Phoenician merchant ship types were decorated with horse heads. hippopotamus The word “horse” was coined by the Greeks, who became very popular in the Levant around the beginning of the first millennium BC, where they were used to trade in precious metals and sometimes to pay tribute after the end of war.[21] Therefore, in the original story, Greek soldiers are thought to be hiding inside the hulls of such ships, perhaps under the guise of tribute, and the term was later taken from the oral tradition of the story, which is the origin of the Trojan myth. This gave rise to suggestions that there may have been a misunderstanding. .
Ships with horse-head decorations, probably cult ships, are also represented in Minoan/Mycenaean artifacts.[22][23] image[24] A seal from around 1200 BC, discovered in the palace of Knossos, depicts a horse superimposed on a boat with rowers, and was originally interpreted to represent the transportation of horses by sea. Ta.[25] In fact, it may be related to a ship of this kind and may even be the first (pre-literary) representation of the Trojan episode.[26]
A more speculative theory, first proposed by Fritz Schachermeier, is that the Trojan Horse is a metaphor for the devastating earthquake that damaged Troy's walls and forced the Greeks to invade the interior.[27] In his theory, the horse represents Poseidon, who was the god of the sea as well as the god of horses and earthquakes. This theory is supported by the fact that archaeological excavations revealed that Troy VI suffered significant damage from an earthquake.[27] However, it is difficult to correct the myth's claim that Poseidon himself built the walls of Troy in the first place.[28]
Whatever it is, it has remained a favorite of manga artists ever since.
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