Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts
Today marks the anniversary of
the traditional Fall of Troy in 1184 B.C., thereby bringing to its culmination
the Trojan War.
The Fall of Troy is not recounted
in Homer’s Iliad, the iconic epic,
it rather covering only a period of ten days to two weeks within the supposed
ten-year span of the war. The Fall of
Troy through the subterfuge of the Trojan Horse is briefly mentioned in the Odyssey and is referenced in several
other Greek sources. The story would not
find, however, its full development until Virgil’s Aeneid.
Some modern historians have
attempted to explain the story as an analogy, suggesting actually that an
earthquake – Poseidon, whose portfolio included horses, was as well the god of
earthquakes. I, for one, would rather
retain the literal interpretation.
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