14 February 2021

Trojan Horse

When Paris abducted Helen, it started the Trojan War, which ended by the trick with the Trojan Horse, whereafter Aeneas managed to escape the burning city. The trick with the hollow horse is a bit odd; the following questions pop up in my mind:

  • Nobody noticed a possible entrance to the belly of the horse?
  • None of the hidden soldiers sneezed or coughed the whole time?
  • They could remain noiseless when the horse suddenly started to move?
  • ...

The Aeneid covers the story of the hollow horse: In Latin, 'horse' translates as 'equus', while 'water' translates as 'aqua'. Before the invention of printing press, a mistake in copying happened easily: Could 'equus' have replaced 'aqua', in connection with the verb 'ducere', which translates as 'to lead'?

This question is brought forward by the New Chronology: Did the seizure of Troy happen as in early medieval Naples?

According to them, the ruïns of Hisarlik are too small for being the remnants of that once so mighty city. They suggest it should be Tsargrad & they could be right: When the Greeks recaptured late medieval Constantinople, being lost to the Latins since the Fourth Crusade, they used a secret passage near the Gate of the Spring ...

"Νεά Πολις" & "Nova Roma" nearly mean the same, as does "𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕". The Aeneid covers the love story of Dido & Aeneas too: Though they've been born centuries apart, in the story they met, proving ancient Virgil indeed wrote propaganda. How about late medieval Virgil?

I mentioned the importance of national propaganda already in a former post: Authors Robert Grishin & Vladimir Melamed suggest in chapter fourteen of their book the mentioned namesakes are doubles. That's right, even Shakespeare might not have been who we think he was, also according to Petter Amundsen ...