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The hippos of Troy why Homer never talked about a horse.
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 p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
ARCHAEOPRESS,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.