Listen "The Fall of Troy"
Episode Synopsis
On April 24, 1183bce (as determined by Eratosthenes the Beta), the City of Troy fell to the Greeks after nine years of devastating siege and bloody war. Few people today realize how many of our cultural values have been inculcated into us by the events of that day. The defeated Trojans would wander west and finally resettle in another city, this time one with seven hills. The Greeks would soon find trouble enough because of the moral compromises they had made to achieve their victory.
Nine years of war, and all over… what, exactly? What if what we are told were the reasons – the necessary and moral imperatives for the war – were not only untrue, but little more than propaganda?
And what lessons are there for us today, more than three thousand years later, as we gaze on the beach where the Trojan Horse waited that fateful morning….
Nine years of war, and all over… what, exactly? What if what we are told were the reasons – the necessary and moral imperatives for the war – were not only untrue, but little more than propaganda?
And what lessons are there for us today, more than three thousand years later, as we gaze on the beach where the Trojan Horse waited that fateful morning….
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