The hippos of Troy : : why Homer never talked about a horse / / Francesco Tiboni.

• VerfasserIn: Tiboni, Francesco,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Archaeopress Publishing,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (121 pages)

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 particular ship type, used to pay tribute to Levantine kings.

Table of Contents

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 5. Image of early Greek warships with two banks of oarsmen. -- Figure 4. Image of a 'ship of fifty oars' from a Greek vase of the end of the 8th Century BC. -- Figure 7. The ship depicted on the Late Helladic IIIC pyxis from the Tragana Tholos Tomb. -- Figure 9. Geometric hulls from Greek potteries. -- Figure 8. The ship depicted on the Cretan clay sarcophagus of Gazi. -- Homer as a source for naval archaeology -- The naval context of the Homeric narration of the last night of Troy -- The Wooden Horse in Ancient Texts -- The original version of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Homer -- Structural elements of the δουρατέος ἵππος of Troy: Vergil -- The Wooden Horse of Troy in Classical Art -- The iconography of the wooden horse in ancient Greece -- Figure 10. The Trojan Horse of the Boeotian bronze fibula - 700 BC. -- Figure 11. The Trojan Horse engraved on the Pithos of Mykonos - 675 BC. -- Figure 12. The Trojan Horse depicted on the Aryballos found at Caere - 560 BC. -- Figure 14. The Carnelian scarab with the Trojan horse from Populonia. -- Figure 13. The Trojan Horse of the black-figured vase found at Orbetello - around 550 BC. -- 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. -- Figure 21. The reproduction of the Trojan Horse created for the movie Troy, now at Cannakale. -- Figure 22. The Trojan Horse on the Codex Virgilius Romanus, 5th century AD. -- The Hippos Ships in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Textual evidence of the ἵππος ship -- Iconography of the ἵππος ship -- Figure 23. The Balawat Gate. Reconstruction at the British Museum. -- Figure 24. One of the Band of the Gate with the hippos ships - 859 BC. -- Figure 25. The second Band of the Gate with the hippos ships - 859 BC. -- Figure 26. The relief of the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad - 705 BC. -- Figure 27. Hippos ship of the Khorsabad Relief. -- Figure 28. Hippos ship of the Khorsabad Relief. -- Figure 29. Relief of Ashurbanirpal III at Kuyunijk. Hippos ship. 669-626 BC. -- Figure 30. A hippos ship depicted on a Hebrew seal of the 8-7th centuries now in a private collection. -- Figure 31. The vase in form of hippos ship found in the site of El-Carrambolo. -- Figure 32. The gem of the Aliseda Treasure with a hippos ship. -- Direct evidence of the ἵππος ship -- The ἵππος ship and the Trojan War -- Why Homer Never Talked About a Horse -- Homer's words in their proper context -- The deception planned by Athena Pallas -- From the ship to the wooden horse of Troy -- Bibliography -- Ancient authors -- Back cover.