Well, the narrator says at the end of the video, "The Trojan War was *nearing* its end." That does kind of give the implication that it isn't *quite* finished *just yet.*
According to Stephen Fry's book Troy, 30 greeks were in the horse. When Helen, under the spell of Aphrodite (as the last effort to save Troy), mimicked the voices of the wives of the men inside, Odysseus shut the men's mouths. Unfortunately, a man called Anticlus was a little impulsive, and Odysseus had to forcefully cover his face from being exposed, which killed him due to suffocation
Here in Pakistan, how intensely I wait for every episode of the "Trojan War Saga"! Good to see you've uploaded the next episode narrating one of the most interesting parts of "The Illiad".
There is a version that said that Helena tried to reveal the strategy of the horse by imitating the voices of the wives of the hidden men, it is said that Odysseus had to shut the mouths of several of them to avoid falling into the trap, Helena nevertheless agrees again. part of the Greeks waving a torch from the city walls to warn the fleet that they had to return to take the city whose gates would be opened by the infiltrated men or the Greek troops that were hidden in the distance depending on the version, but another version said that it was Sinon the abandoned Greek who signaled the troops while at the same time he opened the horse for the hidden Greeks to come out and take the gates.
Regarding 1:53 & 2:06, both the Trojan priest Laocoon and Trojan princess Cassandra warned the Trojans not to trust the Greeks and that the Trojan Horse must be destroyed. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts". The Trojan Horse was a devious subterfuge for malicious invasion.
Agmemnon: "We built a wooden horse after fighting a siege for 10 years. So that we may finally conquer Troy! Quite clever eh?" Julius Caesar be like: "They're hiding behind their walls? Should have just built your own walls instead around their city. You would have conquered Troy in less than a year. Worked for me on Alesia". 🤣
Eris would b so proud of herself. So devilishly manipulated events to get what she wanted. The Littlefigure of the Trojan story. In the end here, nobody won. Thousands of lives were lost for many reasons, but mostly cause of Eris's golden apple. If I was Paris, I would've cut the thing in 3 of equal amounts for the goddesses or burned it after I gave understandable reasons to Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.
Can we appreciate how bold this move by Odysseus was? This was practically an "all in" move. If the Trojans had decided to burn the horse, the war would be over for the Greeks because their greatest heroes would be dead and their camp destroyed. War would have to begin from square one again, by capturing and securing the beach. I doubt the Greeks would have the morale to even consider it. The brilliance of Odysseus lied in the fact that he could anticipate the thinking and thus the choice of the Trojans. And to be sure that they wouldn't be idiots and do the right thinking and thus choose to bring the horse into Troy, he left a Greek to help them do the thinking as foreseen. There lies the brilliance. 0:42 The words of the captured Greek were what Odysseus taught him. An acting performance with the highest stakes, life or death not only for him, but for so many others. Odysseus through this Greek, told them what they wanted to hear and what they would believe, to force them to make the move he wanted. And nailed it. That's where he played them all, King Priam, nobles, priests and elders. He allowed no rationale for the correct move, to burn the horse or not take it in. Even Cassandra who was a prophet and said that they should burn the horse, could not give a good reason. If they did they would insult the gods, and Odysseus told them that the Greeks left and lost the war exactly by insulting Goddess Athena by stealing the palladium. He told them something they knew that happened, but didnt know why it happened. Goddess Athena could be indeed angry for this, they didn't know that the opposite was true. A plague hit again on the greek camp by the angry gods. The Trojans knew that this had happened before by angered Apollo, so this would be very much likely to happen again, since an other God was angered. This would be a very good reason to make them leave. But how could the Trojans now since they seem to had won the war, burn the Horse and risk angering the Gods, when Greeks suffered so much from them, for very less? No reasonable man would do something like this. But taking the horse into Troy and breaking their own gates to take it in? That is some incredible reverse psychology. Odysseus made sure that the horse was taller than the gates, so the Trojans couldn't take it inside. And that is exactly what played with their vanity. And all this, in an "all-in" move? How could Odysseus even persuade the Greeks into a such "hail Mary" plan? So many things could have gone wrong e.g the greek left behind could betray them. But that is what went down in history as the "Trojan Horse" and Odysseus was the man behind it. The Greeks never scammed the Trojans, they did not offer peace or sign an armistice of sort. A random man left behind said random things. Neither Agamemnon, nor a hero (heroes were kings in smaller kingdom/city-states e.g Odysseus King of Ithaca) said that the war was over. Trojans assumed that it was
2:23 Love it! Greek warriors are inside the horse they made so Trojans did not know. 3:33 After They bring wooden horse is enter City of Trojan, the whole city celebrated the victory over the Greeks victory. At night Greek warriors is opened in the belly of the wooden horse dozens warriors began to emerge from that hiding place. They begin to stealthily to find a way to control the city gate to take out Trojan guards. Now Greek Soldiers see a signal fire from the top of the wall and begin attack to slaughter them all! 4:31 Wow Achilles son led Greek Soldiers in the assault on the Royal Palace the last stronghold of Trojan resistance, The Trojan War was nearing its end. 👏 Wow, that was quite impressive Greek warriors come idea to make wooden horse is a gift for City of Trojan. Once they inside wooden horse won't notice your in. They bring it to City of Trojan and wait at night then take out Trojan guards. Now all Soldiers are ready to fight to see a signal fire from the top of the wall. They'll led them victory!
What about the trojan priest Laocoon and his sons killed by snakes when they wanted to warn the Trojans about the horse? I always liked this side story.
Oh, so it's Cassandra here. In the version that I've read, a soothsayer named Laocoon, alongside his two sons, were eaten by sea serpents sent by the great Poseidon right after he claimed that the Trojan Horse is a trap and that taking it within the walls would lead to the kingdom's downfall.
I like the part where the Greeks are called heroes in one sentence & in the next they are murdering unarmed young women & men. I guess we are going to skip the part where Pyrrhus dashes Hector’s infant son against the wall?
I'm looking forward to seeing the aftermath of the war, I hope to see the Greek Gods reaction and there anger towards the Greeks for their sacrilegious acts.
Oh Aphrodite, when are u gonna learn that Psyche is more beautiful than u girl?! So the Golden Apple u claimed that ur the most beautiful of all and still, u just can't accept when someone is call more beautiful than u. Reminds me when she gets offended, she gets a child like tantrum lol. She can't stand it! Hahaha!
Ehi man, i'm a fan of yours from Italy, I wanted to tell you that there is a channel that copies your videos by simply dubbing them. I don't know if it has your permission or not. The channel is called @StoriaeMitologia
O dono desse canal se chama Don Foca e ele tem outro canal voltado para o Brasil chamado "Foca na História". Esse canal que você acabou de dizer pode ter certeza que ou ele vai derrubar ou permitir porém com ganhos autorais!
Wish the story continues to when Odysseus goes home to his wife and his journey back home
Maybe they’ll do the odyssey next.
You mean where Ilias transfers to The Odyssey. :)
Well, the narrator says at the end of the video, "The Trojan War was *nearing* its end." That does kind of give the implication that it isn't *quite* finished *just yet.*
It did 🎉😂😂
Sadly what happens next to Cassandra is even more tragic and the sad fate of most women in this senseless war.
I love this entire saga
Agreed
According to Stephen Fry's book Troy, 30 greeks were in the horse.
When Helen, under the spell of Aphrodite (as the last effort to save Troy), mimicked the voices of the wives of the men inside, Odysseus shut the men's mouths.
Unfortunately, a man called Anticlus was a little impulsive, and Odysseus had to forcefully cover his face from being exposed, which killed him due to suffocation
Here in Pakistan, how intensely I wait for every episode of the "Trojan War Saga"!
Good to see you've uploaded the next episode narrating one of the most interesting parts of "The Illiad".
There is a version that said that Helena tried to reveal the strategy of the horse by imitating the voices of the wives of the hidden men, it is said that Odysseus had to shut the mouths of several of them to avoid falling into the trap, Helena nevertheless agrees again. part of the Greeks waving a torch from the city walls to warn the fleet that they had to return to take the city whose gates would be opened by the infiltrated men or the Greek troops that were hidden in the distance depending on the version, but another version said that it was Sinon the abandoned Greek who signaled the troops while at the same time he opened the horse for the hidden Greeks to come out and take the gates.
I hope this channel does the odyssey next, that would be so wonderful
Yes!
+1
Yep
Keep entertaining us with your amazing story telling.
I JUST LOVE THIS TROJAN WAR SAGA! PLEASE DO MORE!
I like Diomedes and Odysseus the best
I always felt sorry for the Trojans, they got massacred over the pettiness of the Greek gods.
Regarding 1:53 & 2:06, both the Trojan priest Laocoon and Trojan princess Cassandra warned the Trojans not to trust the Greeks and that the Trojan Horse must be destroyed. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts". The Trojan Horse was a devious subterfuge for malicious invasion.
I hope you do the the full story Odyssey
Agmemnon: "We built a wooden horse after fighting a siege for 10 years. So that we may finally conquer Troy! Quite clever eh?"
Julius Caesar be like: "They're hiding behind their walls? Should have just built your own walls instead around their city. You would have conquered Troy in less than a year. Worked for me on Alesia". 🤣
I think that in the Trojan War the city had its own resources and it would be meaningless for the Greeks to try and starve out the Trojans.
And to think Apollo sided with the Trojans and cursed the priestess that tried to warn her people.
You know what I don't think Apollo really cared which side won.
Eris would b so proud of herself. So devilishly manipulated events to get what she wanted. The Littlefigure of the Trojan story. In the end here, nobody won. Thousands of lives were lost for many reasons, but mostly cause of Eris's golden apple. If I was Paris, I would've cut the thing in 3 of equal amounts for the goddesses or burned it after I gave understandable reasons to Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.
Then all three would have been angry at you and wanting you and your home burn to the ground.
I think by doing either you would anger all three of the goddesses and taste their rage
Pretty much we can all agree that the gods are more trouble than helpful.
If I was Paris, I just would have passed it in to someone else
@@ecurewitz He should have had all three Goddesses swear on the River Styx not to seek any type of revenge against him.
Y'ALL HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PART OF THE WAR
💛 all your videos mate👍
I can't wait till this is finish and compile into one mega video/playlist. Going to watch it again when that happen.
I only knew about the trojan horse... glad to hear the whole story !
All of this trouble for a golden apple.
The greatest tragedy in the Iliad, the people who didn’t deserve this.
Can we appreciate how bold this move by Odysseus was? This was practically an "all in" move. If the Trojans had decided to burn the horse, the war would be over for the Greeks because their greatest heroes would be dead and their camp destroyed. War would have to begin from square one again, by capturing and securing the beach. I doubt the Greeks would have the morale to even consider it.
The brilliance of Odysseus lied in the fact that he could anticipate the thinking and thus the choice of the Trojans. And to be sure that they wouldn't be idiots and do the right thinking and thus choose to bring the horse into Troy, he left a Greek to help them do the thinking as foreseen.
There lies the brilliance. 0:42 The words of the captured Greek were what Odysseus taught him. An acting performance with the highest stakes, life or death not only for him, but for so many others. Odysseus through this Greek, told them what they wanted to hear and what they would believe, to force them to make the move he wanted. And nailed it. That's where he played them all, King Priam, nobles, priests and elders. He allowed no rationale for the correct move, to burn the horse or not take it in. Even Cassandra who was a prophet and said that they should burn the horse, could not give a good reason.
If they did they would insult the gods, and Odysseus told them that the Greeks left and lost the war exactly by insulting Goddess Athena by stealing the palladium. He told them something they knew that happened, but didnt know why it happened. Goddess Athena could be indeed angry for this, they didn't know that the opposite was true. A plague hit again on the greek camp by the angry gods. The Trojans knew that this had happened before by angered Apollo, so this would be very much likely to happen again, since an other God was angered. This would be a very good reason to make them leave. But how could the Trojans now since they seem to had won the war, burn the Horse and risk angering the Gods, when Greeks suffered so much from them, for very less? No reasonable man would do something like this.
But taking the horse into Troy and breaking their own gates to take it in? That is some incredible reverse psychology. Odysseus made sure that the horse was taller than the gates, so the Trojans couldn't take it inside. And that is exactly what played with their vanity. And all this, in an "all-in" move? How could Odysseus even persuade the Greeks into a such "hail Mary" plan? So many things could have gone wrong e.g the greek left behind could betray them.
But that is what went down in history as the "Trojan Horse" and Odysseus was the man behind it. The Greeks never scammed the Trojans, they did not offer peace or sign an armistice of sort. A random man left behind said random things. Neither Agamemnon, nor a hero (heroes were kings in smaller kingdom/city-states e.g Odysseus King of Ithaca) said that the war was over. Trojans assumed that it was
2:23 Love it! Greek warriors are inside the horse they made so Trojans did not know.
3:33 After They bring wooden horse is enter City of Trojan, the whole city celebrated the victory over the Greeks victory. At night Greek warriors is opened in the belly of the wooden horse dozens warriors began to emerge from that hiding place. They begin to stealthily to find a way to control the city gate to take out Trojan guards. Now Greek Soldiers see a signal fire from the top of the wall and begin attack to slaughter them all!
4:31 Wow Achilles son led Greek Soldiers in the assault on the Royal Palace the last stronghold of Trojan resistance, The Trojan War was nearing its end.
👏 Wow, that was quite impressive Greek warriors come idea to make wooden horse is a gift for City of Trojan. Once they inside wooden horse won't notice your in. They bring it to City of Trojan and wait at night then take out Trojan guards. Now all Soldiers are ready to fight to see a signal fire from the top of the wall. They'll led them victory!
Oh This one’s gonna be a good one. 😁
What about the trojan priest Laocoon and his sons killed by snakes when they wanted to warn the Trojans about the horse? I always liked this side story.
This version actually surprised me. Instead of Laocoon, it's Cassandra who warned the Trojans.
I'm from India... i love your narration 💙Please continue the story to Odysseus story returns to home..
Oh, so it's Cassandra here. In the version that I've read, a soothsayer named Laocoon, alongside his two sons, were eaten by sea serpents sent by the great Poseidon right after he claimed that the Trojan Horse is a trap and that taking it within the walls would lead to the kingdom's downfall.
Good video 👍🏻
It would have been better if Laocoön had been shown.
"Achilles' son let the men in the final assault on the royal palace"
Oh, no... The infamous "Baby Club" is coming...
I'm watching from Nigeria and I love your channel. Pls the Odyssey next
Finally I can watch my favorite part
Give away what
The next part is where the son of Achilles shows how evil he really is
I like the part where the Greeks are called heroes in one sentence & in the next they are murdering unarmed young women & men.
I guess we are going to skip the part where Pyrrhus dashes Hector’s infant son against the wall?
-Patiently waiting for the Aeneid- 😬😬😬
Nice. You guys also gonna do the oddessey after these?
Let it Burn! 🔥 Let Troy Burn!!!
I feel a bit disappointed that the story of Laocoon have been omitted here.
Do think the horse would look more like the one from the Trojan Horse staring Steve Reeves from the 1961 movie vs the Troy movie with Brad Pitt.
I'm looking forward to seeing the aftermath of the war, I hope to see the Greek Gods reaction and there anger towards the Greeks for their sacrilegious acts.
I just love Greek mythology actually no I just love history in general
What? No mention of Lacheoontes?
So many died because one man couldn't accept his wife left him.
What about priams daughter polyxena and about her romance with achilles??
War lead to nothing...
Sounds like the invasion of Iraq
Cassandra be like: 👁️👄👁️
You forgot Laocoon
Odysseus made this trojan horse idea
Greetings
How long is this trifle wat sis ties gonna last
aaaaaaand years after a computer virus was born
Zeus is my favorite Greek God ⚡🌦️⚡
First episode out of the whole series I dislike you didn't even mention Aeneas killing hundreds of Greek outside the gates with his DarDanians
I Hope you could the story of How greek mythology ends
the greek mythology never ended you know
4:13 Jesus Christ! Going a bit too far, guys, don't you think?
Oh Aphrodite, when are u gonna learn that Psyche is more beautiful than u girl?! So the Golden Apple u claimed that ur the most beautiful of all and still, u just can't accept when someone is call more beautiful than u. Reminds me when she gets offended, she gets a child like tantrum lol. She can't stand it! Hahaha!
Heros u keep calling them heros but they r doing warcrimes killing women children bruh 😂😂😂
You see Cassandra, you brought all of this destruction because you didn't want to sleep with Apollo even THOUGH YOU PROMISED TO BECOME HIS LOVER.
to be fair Apollo don't have a good track records of having lovers that lived long.
Actually this is the goddess of discord fault. Had she never thrown the apple into the banquet the goddesses would’ve never fought over it
@@seandeans1279 or the gods just should have invited her to the party instead
First
Ehi man, i'm a fan of yours from Italy, I wanted to tell you that there is a channel that copies your videos by simply dubbing them. I don't know if it has your permission or not. The channel is called @StoriaeMitologia
O dono desse canal se chama Don Foca e ele tem outro canal voltado para o Brasil chamado "Foca na História". Esse canal que você acabou de dizer pode ter certeza que ou ele vai derrubar ou permitir porém com ganhos autorais!
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