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[Triple Zero]

I should have clarified, that's my bad. Where was the Trojan Horse incident, if not in the Iliad?

In the movies 23 Nichts ist wie es scheint (with Robert Anton Wilson! woooooo) and in Hackers and in Pappalamepimelos: Tzatziki in Your Face 7

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I should have clarified, that's my bad. Where was the Trojan Horse incident, if not in the Iliad?

Oh. The Aeneid, and also referenced/retold in several other texts.

[Freeky]

I should have clarified, that's my bad. Where was the Trojan Horse incident, if not in the Iliad?

Oh. The Aeneid, and also referenced/retold in several other texts.

Ah. Ok. Thanks. 

[Kai]

it was just another of the greek legends associated with the Trojan War. Illiad takes place in the second to last year of the war, Odyssey takes place AFTER the war, and Aeneid (which is roman, written by Virgil, written long after the other two) takes place at the very end and after the war.

Homer spoke the first two, which were popular and survived largely intact to the era of writing. The rest (the wedding, the trial of paris, the horse) is mostly retelling from fragments, and none are preserved as epic poems.

[Kai]

For some more context: The story of the Iliad starts at the beginning of the tenth year of the war, and is largely about a feud between Agammemnon and Achilles, due to which Achilles decides to sit and wait for Agammemnon to pay him back before wading into battle. The gods get involved too, of course. Eventually, Achilies close friend Patroclus is killed on the battle field, and he goes out and hunts down the man who did it, the Trojan champion Hector. Both Hector and Patroclus dead, the poem ends with their funerals.

So yeah. Before Achilies dies on the battle field, before the horse, etc. People tend to confuse the Iliad with the whole of the Trojan war, I know I did.

[Freeky]

For some more context: The story of the Iliad starts at the beginning of the tenth year of the war, and is largely about a feud between Agammemnon and Achilles, due to which Achilles decides to sit and wait for Agammemnon to pay him back before wading into battle. The gods get involved too, of course. Eventually, Achilies close friend Patroclus is killed on the battle field, and he goes out and hunts down the man who did it, the Trojan champion Hector. Both Hector and Patroclus dead, the poem ends with their funerals.

So yeah. Before Achilies dies on the battle field, before the horse, etc. People tend to confuse the Iliad with the whole of the Trojan war, I know I did.

I would have sworn that there was more to it than that, but HS senior english is a few years behind me.