Comments on: The Real Story of the Trojan War

By: Peter C. Liapes

Peter C. Liapes — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:14:20 +0000

I meant to say, above, that even the best suits of Dendra armour had the lower back of the legs exposed.

By: Peter C. Liapes

Peter C. Liapes — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:11:46 +0000

There may or may not have been an Achilles, but armour back then was sort of like it was it was in medieval times in the that more you wanted to invest init the better it could be. Perhaps some great noble warrior (perhaps named Achilles) had a suit of armour that was near invulnerable (and that attribute was later applied to his skin in the later legends*). But if you look at reproductions of the Dendra style armour of the time even the suits had the warrior’s LOWER BACK LEGS exposed.

*Even in the Iliad, there is no mention of any invulnerability attributed to Achilles. He is even slightly wounded in one brief mention.

By: Peter C. Liapes

Peter C. Liapes — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:56:25 +0000

I think the Wooden Horse was probably a siege tower/battering ram type thingee that got the Greeks into the city and as the story was handed down over the centuries by word of mouth, it became the Trojan Horse that we know of today. It might have been even covered by wet horse hides (and thereby got the name of “Horse”) to protect it from flaming projectiles from the city. In other sieges in history, such things were done. There is no evidence of the Greeks, at this time in the Bronze Age, ever using such a type of weapon, but there is evidence that they existed in the Bronze Age in not too distant cultures.