EPISODE 20 “THE SACK OF TROY”

TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Jeff Wright

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4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 98 minutes

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ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com! THE STORY and A MESSAGE FROM JEFF WRIGHT (1:39:53) Odysseus confronts Priam, Menelaus confronts Helen, and Agamemnon confronts Fate and Deadly Destiny …. all on the night when the mighty city of Troy finally falls. And so, with the city of Troy in flames and the Greek fleet set sail across the wine dark seas for home, history’s most awesome epic - the Trojan War Epic - comes to a close. We have travelled a long way together in twenty episodes, from Episode One: The Apple of Discord to Episode Twenty: The Sack of Troy. It has been my pleasure and privilege to be your storyteller and guide on that journey. I have enjoyed sharing every wonderful moment with you. And I have taken constant delight in (and energy from) your generous enthusiasm and support. Of course a story this awesome generates its own “what happens next?” questions, plus an wealth of new subplots and sequels. Fortunately for us, all of that "awesomeness" is now available for your podcast listening pleasure, at ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST. My sequel podcast picks up the story right where Trojan War pod leaves off, down on the burning beaches of Troy. Odyssey: The Podcast tells all the tales found in Homer's Odyssey, of course, but also answers a host of "what happened next?" questions about Agamemnon, Menealus, Helen, and even the late, great Achilles! You can listen to all 24 hours (14 episodes) of Odyssey: The Podcast on whatever platform you listened to Trojan War pod, or via odysseythepodcast.com. In the meantime, let us stay in touch. Should you wish to talk with me (to share ideas; to make suggestions; to offer insights; to invite me to speak/perform in your town), then the best way to reach me is via my professional email: jeff@trojanwarpodcast.com. And should you wish to make a donation ( to say "thanks" for the past 25 hours of fun!), then visit my Donate page on this website. My website jeffwrightstoryteller.com provides video footage from my live shows and details of my other projects. If you take the time to write, I will do my level best to reply. And should you wish to keep posted on my plans, then you might want to follow my Facebook page: Trojan War: The Podcast. That is where I will post updates on my podcast and public performance plans going forward. And if you subscribe to my Twitter feed, @trojanwarpod, I promise to deliver some fun tweets on all things Trojan War and Odyssey.. So once again, thank you for listening. A great story requires a great audience, and you have been wonderful. Jeff RELATED LINKS RELATED IMAGES

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0:00.0	You are listening to Trojan War, the podcast, history's most awesome epic.
0:33.0	This is episode number 20 in the series.
0:37.0	Today's episode is titled, The Sock of Troy.
1:13.6	So just a quick recap of where we were at the end of the previous episode. The
1:17.6	wooden horse stuffed with 30 Greeks has been towed into the city of Troy. It is now
1:22.6	residing beside the Temple of Athena. Inside the city of Troy, while the Trojan people are about to launch
1:28.7	into a party to end all parties. They are firmly convinced that now that this statue to the
1:35.3	goddess Athena has been brought inside the walls of the city, Athena has switched to her allegiances
1:40.3	in the war and that the Greek fleet has now drowned at sea. The Greek fleet, of course,
1:46.5	we know, has not drowned at sea. It is not even really gone very far away. It is simply
1:51.2	hiding behind the island of Tenadus, a mere seven miles away from the city of Troy. Agamemnon
1:57.4	and the fleet are waiting there for a signal fire from the walls of Troy, which will indicate that Odysseus and the other Greeks inside of the belly of the horse have affected a safe exit, and now are in possession of at least a section of the Trojan walls.
2:11.8	And then Agamemnon and the fleet will roll back hard in the wee hours of the morning, and marched directly through the flung wide open,
2:18.8	in fact jammed wide open, skying gates. The Trojans have, of course, destroyed their own walls.
2:25.8	The prophecy said the walls of Troy would never be destroyed by an enemy force, and Odysseus, of course,
2:31.2	had found a way to twist or thwart that prophecy and get the Trojans to just
2:35.1	take away and destroy a tiny little bit of their wall, which controlled the opening and closing
2:39.9	mechanisms of those mighty, skying gates. So that's where we left things. Now, at the end of the
2:46.5	episode, I left Odysseus and the other warriors inside the belly of that horse, and I drew your attention
2:52.0	to one warrior whose name you hadn't heard before, a warrior named Neoptolemus.
2:57.2	And I promised you at the time that at some future stage I would get back and tell you Neoptolems's
3:02.2	story, because it's an important story. Well, that future time is now, folks. And so, if you will,
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