Book contents
- The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
- Reviews
- The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Sphinx (Sphinx aenigmatica)
- Chapter 2 Xanthus, Achilles’ Speaking Horse (Equus eloquens)
- Chapter 3 The Lion of Androclus (Panthera leo philanthropus)
- Chapter 4 The Cyclops (Cyclops inhospitalis)
- Chapter 5 The Trojan Horse (Equus troianus)
- Chapter 6 The ‘Trojan’ Boar (Aper troianus ostentator)
- Chapter 7 The Political Bee (Apis politica)
- Chapter 8 The Socratic Gadfly (Haematopota oxyglotta socratis)
- Chapter 9 The Minotaur (Hybrida minotaurus)
- Chapter 10 The Shearwaters of Diomedea (Calonectris diomedea transformata)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - The Trojan Horse (Equus troianus)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
- Reviews
- The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Sphinx (Sphinx aenigmatica)
- Chapter 2 Xanthus, Achilles’ Speaking Horse (Equus eloquens)
- Chapter 3 The Lion of Androclus (Panthera leo philanthropus)
- Chapter 4 The Cyclops (Cyclops inhospitalis)
- Chapter 5 The Trojan Horse (Equus troianus)
- Chapter 6 The ‘Trojan’ Boar (Aper troianus ostentator)
- Chapter 7 The Political Bee (Apis politica)
- Chapter 8 The Socratic Gadfly (Haematopota oxyglotta socratis)
- Chapter 9 The Minotaur (Hybrida minotaurus)
- Chapter 10 The Shearwaters of Diomedea (Calonectris diomedea transformata)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter revolves around the famous story of how the Greeks managed to get into the city of Troy concealed in a gigantic wooden horse – and thus won a long and drawn-out war. The chapter follows this story and dismantles the odd human/animal hybrid at its core in the ultimate aim to explore how notions of animality define the human at war. Moving away from the ‘othering’ at work in the previous chapter, this one illustrates an area of existence in which analogies between human and animal prevail. Fighting emerges as an area of life in which our animal side comes to the fore.
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- The Trojan Horse and Other StoriesTen Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human, pp. 109 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024