The Trojan War

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Trojan War was a time of heroes. From the swift-footed Achilles, and the hot-headed Prince Paris, to the beautiful Queen Helen, and the all-powerful gods, Zeus, Athena, and Aphrodite. In these early days of what we now call Ancient Greece, the story of Troy was already a saga from a bygone age, re-imagined by Homer, and told around the world ever since. But was any of it true? Did those legendary heroes ever exist? How did Helen’s beauty launch a thousand ships? And could the Greeks really have breached the city walls by hiding inside a giant wooden horse? This is a Short History Of The Trojan War. A Noiser Production, written by Jo Furniss. With thanks to Professor Armand D’Angour, a classical scholar at Jesus College, Oxford, and presenter of the podcast It’s All Greek (And Latin) To Me. Get every episode of Short History Of a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material, and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.0	It's August 1868.
1:05.0	A German by the name of Heinrich Schleiman hikes across a blustry plain in northwest Turkey. The sun beats down, but he is a determined man.
1:16.0	A self-made millionaire, he is on a quest to find a lost city.
1:28.4	He holds a shovel in one hand and a sweat-stained book in the other. The wind ruffling its pages reminds Schleiman of a quote from somewhere in the story.
1:33.0	It's called the Iliad, an account of a war waged by the armies of Greece against the city of Troy.
1:42.0	Pausing, he flicks through the pages. Pause
1:42.8	he flicks through the pages.
1:45.0	Yes, here the poet Homer describes Troy as the windy city,
1:50.0	just like it is on this plane. But the Iliad also describes two springs of
1:57.3	water rising from the ground, the huge walls of Troy's citadel, its wide
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