..”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.