View Single Post
Old 05-25-2007, 04:45 AM   #3
All-American
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,420
All-American is an unknown quantity at this point
Send a message via MSN to All-American
Default

Trojan Horse is in neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey, apparently. Wikipedia says the most detailed account of the Trojan Horse episode is found in Virgil's Aeneid, though the story is obviously much older than that, given that it was mentioned in the Odyssey. This is a book worth reading if you liked Homer's poems; we're going through it right now in our Latin class. The story is that Aeneas, who figures prominently in the Trojan War, leads a group of survivors from Troy and eventually arrives in Italy. His descendants later become the Romans. Interesting how ancients tried to link themselves to these ancestors (though Dr. John Hall at BYU makes a pretty convincing argument that the claim to Trojan ancestry is legit).
__________________
εν αρχη ην ο λογος

Last edited by All-American; 05-25-2007 at 04:49 AM.
All-American is offline   Reply With Quote