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

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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...

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

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