This key episode does not appear in The Iliad, but was recounted in The Odyssey (Book 4 and Book 8), and was further embellished later by authors of the Roman period, particularly in Virgil's Aeneid (Book 2), perhaps using other now lost Archaic works of the Epic Cycle as sources. 2240.Īlthough the story of the Trojan Horse (δουράτεος ἵππος, dourateos hippos, wooden horse, in Homeric/Ionic Greek δούρειος ἵππος, doureios hippos, in Attic Greek) has become the best known episode in the cycle of tales of the Trojan War, only around half a dozen ancient Greek depictions have so far been discovered, mostly on vases and pottery fragments. Height 133.9 cm, maximum diameter 73.3 cm. Made in a workshop on the Cycladic island Tenos (modern Tinos, Τήνος), around 675-650 BC.įound by chance in summer 1961, during the digging of a well of a private house in the area The earliest dated objects with a depiction of this episode from the end of the siege of Troy. On the neck, and scenes of the Greeks sacking Troy (the 'Ilioupersis') on the body. With relief depictions Greek warriors inside the Trojan Horse (the Wooden Horse of Troy) The front of the 'Mykonos Vase', a large pithos (πίθος, storage jar plural, pithoi, πίθοι) After ten years of wandering, and facing many adventures and perils, he is the only Ithakan to reach home, where he is finally reunited with his father Laertes, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos. After taking part in the ten-year Trojan war, the Greek hero Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), king of Ithaka, and his men set off for home in ships.ĭue to hostile interventions by gods, particularly Poseidon, they are in turn off blown course, delayed at several places around the Mediterranean, and beset by storms and monsters. The story of The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) by Homer is a sequel to his Iliad. Homeric scenes in Greek, Etruscan and Roman art The Odyssey

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