entity · ENT-TROJAN-HORSE
Trojan Horse
The stratagem by which later Greek tradition says warriors entered and captured Troy.
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Possible natural-disaster memory
A scholarly hypothesis that a mythic motif may preserve a transformed memory of a real natural event.
Why does this record have this property?
Troy VIh was probably destroyed by earthquake, and an earthquake interpretation of the Horse exists in scholarship. The bridge between those observations is not demonstrated. Competing explanations include a siege engine, ship imagery, folktale, ritual symbolism, and literary invention.
- The Falls of Troy in Greek Tradition
proposes interpretation - Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes: The Trojan Horse in Myth and Art
reviews support and competing interpretations
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides motif history and competing interpretations
Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes: The Trojan Horse in Myth and Art — Lauren Murphy (2017)