Who wrote the Trojan Horse?

Sources

Sources

• Homer, Iliad 23-24 and Odyssey 4.266-289, 8.492-521 and 11.523-540 (trans. Samuel Butler, 1898 and 1900); Proclus's summaries of the Little Iliad and the Sack of Ilium, and the Little Iliad fragments (in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White, Loeb 1914); Virgil, Aeneid 2 (trans. H. R. Fairclough, Loeb 1916); Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.202 and 36.37 (trans. J. Bostock and H. T. Riley); Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.23.8 (trans. W. H. S. Jones, Loeb 1918); the Mykonos vase (Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, inv. 2240); C. W. Blegen's excavations of Troy VI and VIIa; the Alaksandu treaty (CTH 76) and the Tawagalawa letter; F. Tiboni (2016) on horse-headed ships.

Pictures

• the silent films La caduta di Troia (1911, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana restoration) and Helena (1924); paintings by Tiepolo, Hayez, Guérin, David, Lagrenée, Böcklin, El Greco, Barocci, Claude, Angelica Kauffmann, Ingres, Bouguereau, Evelyn De Morgan, Mostaert, Valenciennes, Hubert Robert, Bergeret and others; the Vatican and Roman Vergil manuscripts and the Ambrosian and Venetus A Iliads; prints and sculpture from the Rijksmuseum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0); Flaxman's Odyssey; Greek vases, the Laocoön group and the Pompeii frescoes; plates from Schliemann's Ilios (1880); the pages read in the script in old printed editions (Butler's Iliad and Odyssey, Evelyn-White's Homerica, Fairclough's Virgil, Bostock and Riley's Pliny, Jones's Pausanias). Troy (2004) and The Odyssey (2026) are named, not shown.

Credits (via Wikimedia Commons)

• the Mykonos vase photographed by Zde (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Travelling Runes (CC BY-SA 2.0); Vernet's Games in Honour of Patroclus by David Moran (CC BY-SA 2.0); the Kleophrades Painter's Ilioupersis by ArchaiOptix (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Pasquino group by Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0); the Tabula Iliaca and Hayez's Ulysses at the Court of Alcinous (1813) by Sailko (CC BY 3.0); the Farnese Homer by NikonZ7II (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Neumagen school relief by shakko (CC BY-SA 3.0); a bust of Titus by mumblerjamie (CC BY-SA 2.0); the walls of Troy by Jorge Láscar (CC BY 2.0) and QuartierLatin1968 (CC BY-SA 2.0); Schliemann's trench, Troy's south gate and the Fraktin relief by Dosseman (CC BY-SA 4.0); Troy VI by Mark Landon (CC BY 4.0); Priam's Treasure in the Pushkin Museum by NearEMPTiness (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Kadesh treaty tablet by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Sirkeli relief by Volker Höhfeld (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Troy (2004) horse at Çanakkale by Sharon Hahn Darlin (CC BY 2.0); Christopher Nolan by Georges Biard (CC BY-SA 4.0).