Assyrian siege machines are explored in interviews with Julian Reade of the British Museum, among other experts.
Then a visit to the site with Profs. Brian Rose and Ernst Pernicka of the Project Troia, discussing horse and archeology.
Nice computer re-creations of the horse and Troy
Dr. Louis Rawlings of Cardiff University discusses the Mykonos vase, and then some speculations on horse trading at Troy.
Dr. Michael Whitby of Warwick University examines the religious incentives the Trojans would have for a large horse offering.
equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Aeneis - Homer's Iliad - Odysseus (Οδυσσεύς) - Agamemnon (Αγαμέμνων) - Τροία, Troía, Troia
By destiny compell'd, and in despair,
The Greeks grew weary of the tedious war,
And by Minerva's aid a fabric rear'd,
Which like a steed of monstrous height appear'd:
The sides were plank'd with pine; they feign'd it made
For their return, and this the vow they paid.
Thus they pretend, but in the hollow side
Selected numbers of their soldiers hide:
With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
[...]
Laocoon, follow'd by a num'rous crowd,
Ran from the fort, and cried, from far, aloud:
'O wretched countrymen! What fury reigns?
What more than madness has possess'd your brains?
Think you the Grecians from your coasts are gone?
And are Ulysses' arts no better known?
This hollow fabric either must inclose,
Within its blind recess, our secret foes;
Or 't is an engine rais'd above the town,
T' o'erlook the walls, and then to batter down.
Somewhat is sure design'd, by fraud or force:
Trust not their presents, nor admit the horse.'
(Virgil's Aeneid, translation by John Dryden)
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10/25/2007