In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle explores the origins of the story of the Trojan Horse If you had to name the famous work from classical antiquity which told the story of the Trojan Horse, which work would you name? The work of literature which […]
Tag: Iliad
Following Homer: The Epic Poems of the Cyclic Poets
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle discovers the epic poets who wrote continuations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey When I began this column back in May last year, it was intended to be an online extension of my first book for a general audience, The […]