Barry Strauss (Stanford University) "Was the Trojan Horse a War Crime?"

Talk description:

At the heart of the hit movie, “The Odyssey,” is director-writer Christopher Nolan’s focus on the Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy. He contends that it was “a violation of the law of Zeus,” which today we would call a war crime. But was it a war crime? Would the ancient Greeks have considered it a crime? And what would the law of armed conflict say if the Trojan Horse episode took place today? Strauss discusses these questions in a talk that represents work in progress on his book, Operation Trojan Horse: The World’s Most Enduring Military Tactic.

Short Bio:

Barry Strauss is the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Emeritus, at Cornell University. He was awarded the Bradley Prize in 2025. His latest book is Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire.

This talk will not be recorded and will not be available on Zoom.