Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
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 |
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Figure 15. The red-figured Attic cup of the Pittore della Fonderia -- 480 BC. -- Figure 16. Homeric bowl with the Trojan Horse -- 3rd-2nd century BC. -- The iconography of the wooden horse in Rome -- Figure 18. The second representation of the Trojan Horse on the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina -- 1st century BC. -- Figure 17. The first representation of the Trojan Horse on the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina -- 1st century BC. -- Figure 20. The Trojan Horse on the painting by Tiepolo. -- Figure 19. The Trojan Horse painted on the fresco of the House of Menandrus at Pompeii -- 1st century AD |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
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Homer. Odyssey.
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SUBJECT |
Homer fast |
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Odyssey (Homer) fast |
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Warships -- Greece -- History
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Trojan horse (Greek mythology)
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Trojan horse (Greek mythology)
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Warships
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Greece
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781789699005 |
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1789699002 |
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