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Post by moomin »

ge96 wrote: post #2

I was disappointed the horse wasn't real

Ben Bova hypothesized that Homer was actually describing early siege towers, but given the veracity of many mundane parts of the story it seems unlikely.

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Post by ge96 »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #3
ge96 wrote: post #2

I was disappointed the horse wasn't real

How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?

I don't just online consensus. Need to simulate the universe's particles and rewind time like that show Devs to witness it myself.

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Post by huxley »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #3
ge96 wrote: post #2

I was disappointed the horse wasn't real

How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?

At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey.

Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.

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Post by elmomle »

huxley wrote: post #7
readthenotes1 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?

At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey. Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.

That is so, but my understanding was that those later stories tie back to a lost epic (Iliupersis) that, while not officially attributed to Homer, was being sung contemporaneously with the other stories of the Trojan war cycle.

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Post by detourdog »

moomin wrote: post #5
ge96 wrote: post #2

I was disappointed the horse wasn't real

Ben Bova hypothesized that Homer was actually describing early siege towers, but given the veracity of many mundane parts of the story it seems unlikely.

I have also heard it described as a boat.
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