Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Trojan War is the great story of ancient Greece, made immortal by Homer in the Iliad. An alliance of Greek cities besieges Ilium, the other name for Troy, for ten years. Gods take sides. Heroes die for honor.
The city does not give in to force. It falls to a trick: the wooden horse. That ruse became a universal symbol, from the battlefield all the way to today's computer viruses.
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- 2A golden apple starts everything
- 3Ten years of siege with no winner
- 4The wooden horse
- 5The fall and the legacy
Open-book quiz10 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary16 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
