Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

55 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 13, 2015

The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the Trojans into defeat with a giant wooden horse that concealed enough soldiers to reduce the powerful city to rubble? Are the city of Troy and the familiar story of the Trojan War as recounted in Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad, fact or fiction?

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

55 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 13, 2015

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the Trojans into defeat with a giant wooden horse that concealed enough soldiers to reduce the powerful city to rubble? Are the city of Troy and the familiar story of the Trojan War as recounted in Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad, fact or fiction?
Producers Thirteen, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Original title Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
Directors Tom Fowlie
Writers

Cast

Jay O. Sanders

as Narrator (voice)

Anthony Call

as Homer (voice)