entity · motif_trojan_horse
Trojan Horse
An individual narrative motif with its own attestations and competing interpretations.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Mythological Motif
A reusable narrative object, action, character, or symbol within a mythic or literary tradition.
Why does this record have this property?
The Wooden Horse is an individual narrative motif within the Trojan War tradition.
- Research Project: Reconstructing the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transformation as an Evidence-Linked Historical System
supports assignment - The Earthquake-Horse
supports assignment
Possible Natural-Disaster Memory
A proposed interpretation connecting a mythic motif to transformed memory or symbolism of a natural event.
Why does this record have this property?
One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.
- The Earthquake-Horse
supports assignment - Poseidon’s Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
supports assignment - Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes
supports assignment
Low-Confidence Interpretation
An interpretation with some scholarly basis but major unresolved chronological, transmission, evidential, or alternative-explanation problems.
Why does this record have this property?
The earthquake interpretation has major evidential and transmission gaps and competes with other explanations.
- The Earthquake-Horse
supports assignment - The Fall of Troy and the Earthquake-Horse
supports assignment - Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
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The Earthquake-Horse — L. A. Mackay (1946)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Trojan Horse.
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The Fall of Troy and the Earthquake-Horse — P. B. S. Andrews (1965)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Trojan Horse.
- supports · supports entity record
Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes — Lauren Murphy (2017)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Trojan Horse.