Troya Final
Troya Final
Troya Final
Legend has it that on April 24, 1124 B.C. After ten long years of siege, the
Greeks entered the impregnable city using an enormous wooden horse that
the Trojans, in their innocence, introduced into the city. The first stories
that refer to this event, mythical or historical, are found in literature,
specifically in Homer's Odyssey: "It sings about the wooden horse that
Epeo built together with Athena and that the divine Odysseus took to the
acropolis to way of deceit, filling it with the men who destroyed Troy.
WHY THE TROY WAR?
After the abduction of the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta
and brother of Agamemnon of Mycenae, the Spartans formed a league with
other Greek cities to attack Troy and rescue their queen.
THE IDEATION OF THE TROY HORSE
The soothsayer Calchas observed a dove pursued by a hawk. The dove
took refuge in a crevice and the hawk remained near the hole, but could not
catch the dove. The hawk then decided to pretend to withdraw and hid out
of sight of the dove, who slowly poked its head in to make sure that the
hunter had given up, but then the hawk came out of hiding and finished the
hunt. After narrating this vision, Calchas deduced that they should not
continue trying to storm the walls of Troy by force, but would instead have
to devise a stratagem to take the city.