Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Anticlus.
The gallery
The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760
Tiepolo's horse enters Troy — among the warriors hidden inside, later tradition places Anticlus, whom Odysseus throttles when Helen calls the victims' names and he nearly answers.
The Building of the Trojan Horse
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760
Companion canvas: the hollow timber under construction — the cavity that will hold Anticlus until Odysseus' hand closes his mouth in the night of the sack.
Child Murder (Mykonos Vase, detail)
Unknown (Orientalizing potter), c. 670 BC
The Mykonos pithos that first shows the Trojan Horse — the stratagem whose interior silence Anticlus nearly breaks when Helen mimics the Greek wives.
On screen
In play
Odyssey
Homer
In the Odyssey's horse-tale (and later Little Iliad tradition), Anticlus nearly answers Helen's voice-trick until Odysseus clamps his mouth — the silenced Greek inside the timber.
Anticlus
Achaean warrior in the Wooden Horse — remembered for the cry Odysseus stops, not for a separate heroic cycle.