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Troy before The Iliad

July 13th, 2023

From wavelength.ai The Hittite texts provide some insights into the stories surrounding Troy, although they are not as detailed as the later accounts found in the Iliad and other Greek sources. These texts mention a city called Wilusa, which is believed to be the Hittite name for Troy. The stories depicted in these texts involve conflicts and alliances between various kingdoms in the region. One of the most significant Hittite texts is the Tawagalawa Letter, which is a correspondence betwee...

A Summary and Analysis of the Trojan Horse Myth

June 8th, 2023

What was the Trojan Horse? The Trojan Horse the hollow wooden horse in which Greek soldiers concealed themselves so they could enter Troy without arousing suspicion. The Trojan Horse was offered to the city of Troy as a gift, but when the Trojans took the wooden horse inside the city gates, the Greeks who had secreted themselves within the wooden structure came out and were thus able to attack Troy from within. As is so often the case with stories from ancient myth, the term Trojan hors...

Did the Trojan Horse exist? Classicist tests Greek 'myths' | University of Oxford

September 25th, 2022

Did the Trojan Horse exist? Classicist tests Greek 'myths' Oxford News blog The story of the Trojan Horse is well-known. First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.But was it just a myth? Probably, says Oxford University classicist Dr Armand D'Angour: 'Archaeological evidence shows t...

Ajax (person) by everyone - Everything2.com

June 9th, 2022

Ajax (person) See all of Ajax, there are 2 more in this node. Αιας Ajax of Locri is called the son of Oileaus or the Lesser Ajax to distinguish him from Ajax the son of Telamon, or Great Ajax. He was one of the heroes who fought against Troy as commander of the Locrians, bringing with him forty ships. He fought beside his namesake the son of Telamon, but whereas the latter was heavily armed, the son of Oileus was armed only with a breastplate of linen and a bow. He was a par...

Odysseus: A Man of Many Faces

December 8th, 2021

Aug 17, 20205 minOdysseus: A Man of Many FacesUpdated: Dec 24, 2020From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious speculation and partly based on the shadowy memory of an era before the Greek adoption of writing circa seventh or eighth century BCE. People in Homer's day had no access to the sort of historical records on which we today depend, especially regarding the period when Agamemnon supposedly led...

Mike Pence invokes the Trojans - Greeks - King Priam

June 20th, 2020

Washington Post, 20 Jun 2020 - page A21

Ajax - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, Greek, god, names, war, flower, life, hero

August 16th, 2017

Myths Encyclopedia Myths and Legends of the World Myths Encyclopedia » A-Am » Ajax - Myth Encyclopedia Ajax Ajax (also known as Aias) was one of the greatest of the Greek heroes who fought in the Trojan War*. He was the son of Telamon, the king of Salamis and a friend of Hercules*. Before the birth of Ajax, Hercules prayed to Zeus* and asked him to give Telamon a brave son. Ajax was named after an ...

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