Posted on 08/11/2021 12:50:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Turkish archaeologists excavating the site of the city of Troy on the hills of Hisarlik have discovered a large wooden structure that they believe are the remains of the famous Trojan Horse.
Archaeologists who claimed they had unearthed remnants of the legendary Trojan Horse in Turkey have now found significant evidence that further supports their claim, according to an article by the Greek Reporter.
Turkish archaeologists excavating the site of the city of Troy on the hills of Hisarlik have discovered a large wooden structure that they believe are the remains of the Trojan Horse. These excavations include dozens of fir planks and beams up to 15 meters (49 feet) long, assembled in a strange form.
The wooden structure was found inside the walls of the ancient city of Troy.
Now, Boston University professors Christine Morris and Chris Wilson believe that "the carbon dating tests and other analyses have all suggested that the wooden pieces and other artifacts date from the 12th or 11th centuries BC." Morris and Wilson believe with a "high level of confidence" that the structure is linked to the iconic horse. They say that tests have only confirmed their theory.
“This matches the dates cited for the Trojan War, by many ancient historians like Eratosthenes or Proclus. The assembly of the work also matches the description made by many sources. I don’t want to sound overconfident, but I’m pretty certain that we found the real thing!”
The Trojan Horse is associated with the Trojan War, written about by Homer in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad closes right before the war ends, so it does not feature the legendary horse.
The Trojan Horse was used to seize Troy and win the war. The story was prominently featured in the Aeneid by Virgil. Historians have suggested that the horse was an analogy for a war machine or natural disaster. Archaeologists also discovered a damaged bronze plate with the inscription, “For their return home, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena.” Quintus Smyrnaeus refers to this plate in his epis poem "Posthomerica."
You don’t know that period that’s just conjecture.
“You knew this was coming”
Yes, I was just scrolling down so I could write that the contemporary dolled up giant wooden Trojan Horse, Barak, was dragged, his wheels turning, into our nation’s capital right in front of the eyes of the populace. Once installed, the minions of troops exited, sat down at desk jobs, and set about destroying the country from within, aka “fundamentally changing America.”
..”written about by Homer in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer never wrote a single word... Just sayin’.”
These oral narratives, transmitting historical embellished sagas of the heroic Greek and general Mediterranean past, were part of the society’s shared culture/mythology mixed with real events of the past, passed on from generation to generation. Homer was said to be one of the wandering storytellers. Even if he himself didn’t come up with the tales, which were already well known oral tradition, he was no slouch. He learned the traditional stories and transmitted them as a flowing, rhythmic chant in exact dactylic hexameter poetic lines - six measure of dactyle and spondees in each line, the last measure the two bear spondee.
The highly structured rhythm helped the bard remember the lines, many measures and epithets and stock descriptive phrases repeating to push him forward within minimum pauses.
There surely could have been a large wooden construction to camouflage and protect fighters as they invaded Troy. The ancients built remarkable constructions. The device could indeed have been on wheels.
In Xena the Warrior Princess, he was a classmate of Xena’s lesbo squeeze Gabriella in college, who would close his eyes while reciting, earning him the nickname “the blind poet”. If it was in Xena the Warrior Princess, it must be true. Deny it and you’ll answer to Joxer the Mighty.
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