Are these Trojans at this point?
To think, in spite of Cassandra and Laocoon's warnings, that the Greeks were innocently offering them this beautiful canasson ... Unless we don't know the whole story?
This is the thesis defended by the archaeologists who testify in this fascinating German documentary, signed Roland May and entitled
The Enigma of the Trojan Horse
(visible on Arte.tv until April 25).
They are astonished that Homer is so little verbose in his descriptions of the machine and its operation.
The story of
The Iliad
stops on the eve of the attack, that of
The Odyssey
does not begin until the day after it.
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But the researchers refuse to shoot their arrows at Homer.
He himself was not to know much more about the event.
The fault lies with the "dark ages", those which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization.
All written records of the legendary Trojan War have disappeared, leaving the rhapsodists to remember.
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