Editing Trojan Horse (section)

==Ancient representations==
Pictorial representations of the Trojan Horse earlier than, or contemporary to, the first literary appearances of the episode can help clarify what was the meaning of the story as perceived by its contemporary audience. There are few ancient (before 480 BC) depictions of the Trojan Horse surviving.<ref name="BA Sparkes">{{Cite journal|last=Sparkes|first=B. A.|date=1971|title=The Trojan Horse in Classical Art1|journal=Greece & Rome|volume=18|issue=1|pages=54–70|doi=10.1017/S001738350001768X|s2cid=162853081 |issn=1477-4550}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sadurska|first=Anna|date=1986|title=Equus Trojanus|journal=Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|location=Zürich|volume=3,1|pages=813–817}}</ref> The earliest is on a Boeotian [[fibula (brooch)|fibula]] dating from about 700 BC.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueofbronz00brit|title=Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum|last1=British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities|last2=Walters|first2=Henry Beauchamp|date=1899|publisher=London, Printed by order of the Trustees|others=Wellesley College Library|pages=374}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019b4wl/p0199bsc|title=Bronze bow fibula (brooch) with a glimpse of the Trojan Horse with wheels under feet – Images for Mary Beard's Cultural Exchange – Front Row's Cultural Exchange – BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|access-date=3 November 2017}}</ref> Other early depictions are found on two [[relief]] [[pithos|pithoi]] from the Greek islands [[Mykonos]] and [[Tinos]], both generally dated between 675 and 650 BC. The one from Mykonos (see figure) is known as the [[Mykonos vase]].<ref name="BA Sparkes" /><ref>{{cite journal|last=Caskey|first=Miriam Ervin|title=Notes on Relief Pithoi of the Tenian-Boiotian Group|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|date=Winter 1976|volume=80|issue=1|pages=19–41|jstor=502935|doi=10.2307/502935|s2cid=191406489 }}</ref> Historian [[Michael Wood (historian)|Michael Wood]] dates the Mykonos vase to the eighth century BC, before the written accounts attributed by tradition to [[Homer]], and posits this as evidence that the story of the Trojan Horse existed before those accounts were written.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Wood (historian)|title=In Search of the Trojan War|year=1985|publisher=BBC books|location=London|isbn=978-0-563-20161-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/trent_0116300590720_1985/page/80 80; 251]|url=https://archive.org/details/trent_0116300590720_1985/page/80}}</ref> Other archaic representations of the Trojan horse are found on a [[Corinth]]ian [[aryballos]] dating back to 560 BC<ref name="BA Sparkes" /> (see figure), on a vase fragment to 540 BC (see figure), and on an Etruscan carnelian scarab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253376|title=Carnelian scarab {{!}} Etruscan, Populonia {{!}} Late Archaic {{!}} The Met|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref> An Attic red-figure fragment from a kalyx-krater dated to around 400 BC depicts the scene where the Greeks are climbing down the Trojan Horse,  represented by the wooden hatch door.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peixoto |first=Gabriel B. |date=2022 |title=The Depiction of Temples in Attic Red Figure: from mid-5th to mid-4th century BCE |url=https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.27930.31687 |language=en |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.27930.31687}}</ref>

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File:Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (1899) (14780940341).jpg|The earliest known depiction of the Trojan Horse,<ref name="BA Sparkes" /> on a bronze fibula (ca. 700 BC), note the wheels and the square openings on the horse's side
File:Trojan horse on Corinthian aryballos.jpg|Depiction of the Trojan Horse on a Corinthian [[aryballos]] (ca. 560 BC) found in [[Cerveteri]] (Italy)
File:Antikensammlung Berlin 405.JPG|Warriors leaving the Trojan Horse, fragment of an attic black-figure [[krater]] from [[Orbetello]] (Italy), ca. 540 BC
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