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The Hippos of Troy : Why Homer Never Talked about a Horse

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021 [©2021]

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Englisch

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This book addresses perhaps the most famous episode in Classical mythology: the Wooden Horse of Troy. Through analysis of words, images and wrecks, the author proposes a new interpretation of what Homer actually intended when he spoke of the 'hippos' used by the Greeks to conquer Troy: a particular ship type, used to pay tribute to Levantine kings.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Aknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Figure 1. The archaeological site of Hissarlik/Troy - plan. -- Archaeology at Troy -- Figure 2. The archaeological site of Hissarlik/Troy - section. -- Was it a horse? -- The Naval Dimension of Homer -- The nautical dimension of the Homeric world -- Figure 3. Iconography of the first Mycenaean galleys of the Mycenaean/Achaean group as defined by Shelley Wachsmann: the Kynos Ship, Late Helladic IIIC. -- Figure 6. The ship depicted on the Middle Helladic fragment from Volos. -- Figure 5. Image of early Greek warships with two banks of oarsmen. -- Figure 4. Image of a 'ship of fifty oars' from a Greek vase of the end of the 8th Century BC. -- Figure 7. The ship depicted on the Late Helladic IIIC pyxis from the Tragana Tholos Tomb. -- Figure 9. Geometric hulls from Greek potteries. -- Figure 8. The ship depicted on the Cretan clay sarcophagus of Gazi. -- Homer as a source for naval archaeology -- The naval context of the Homeric narration of the last night of Troy -- The Wooden Horse in Ancient Texts -- The original version of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Homer -- Structural elements of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Vergil -- The Wooden Horse of Troy in Classical Art -- The iconography of the wooden horse in ancient Greece -- Figure 10. The Trojan Horse of the Boeotian bronze fibula - 700 BC. -- Figure 11. The Trojan Horse engraved on the Pithos of Mykonos - 675 BC. -- Figure 12. The Trojan Horse depicted on the Aryballos found at Caere - 560 BC. -- Figure 14. The Carnelian scarab with the Trojan horse from Populonia. -- Figure 13. The Trojan Horse of the black-figured vase found at Orbetello - around 550 BC. -- Figure 15. The red-figured Attic cup of the Pittore della Fonderia - 480 BC.