Mythology of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Karen Bornemann Spies

Author:Karen Bornemann Spies [Spies, Karen Bornemann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780766061743
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Robert Graves, a historical novelist, noted that the horse was the sacred animal of Troy. Yet classical writers on Homer felt that a device other than an actual wooden horse might have been used to break down the walls of Troy. The Greeks might have entered:

... into Troy by a postern (gate) which had a horse painted on it; or that the sign of a horse was used to distinguish the Greeks from their enemies in the darkness and confusion; or that when Troy had been betrayed, the oracles forbade the plundering of any house marked with the sign of a horse... ; or that Troy fell as a result of a cavalry action; or that the Greeks, after burning their camp, concealed themselves behind Mount Hippius (“of the horse.”)1

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