Remember Gershom, the renegade Egyptian prince who eventually became captain of Aeneas's ship, the Xanthos, the Burner Ship? His real name was Prince Ahmose. He had a younger brother, Prince Thutmose. He fled to Kretos to escape the wrath of his grandfather, the Pharaoh, after he had slain two Egyptian royal guards when they attacked a Jewish slave woman.
Kassandra, youngest daughter of Priam, who could see the future, foretold Gershom's (Ahmose's) future return to Egypt, in the process also making Gershom (Ahmose) recall his earliest memories of his young childhood in Egypt. You see, he never knew that he was an adopted Jewish child, until the prophecy session with Kassandra. He had always thought that he was of the Pharaoh's own flesh n blood.
Now, my first read of Troy I, II n III have led me to conclude that Gershom/Ahmose was Moses himself. But the prophet who Gershom/Ahmose had brought with him from the Egyptian quarter of Troy, to treat a dying Aeneas with maggot therapy, was an older prophet, preceding Moses.
The chronology may not have fitted in perfectly, though, between the proposed time of the Trojan War n the estimated time of Moses's existence. But it was close enough, in the vast time frame of ancient history. Many scholars say that Troy occurred anywhere around 1250 to 1400 BC. While the time of Moses was ca 1300 to 1450 BC. Well, something like that.
Anyway, it's just fiction, isnt it? Written for our entertainment most of all. But all credit to David. What he had done was craft in an appearance - more than a cameo appearance - for Moses in his Troy story. Which is absolutely fantastic, I think.
David also involved his Hector in the famous Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptians n the Hittites, said to be the first big war in history. Another piece of brilliant inspiration.
Could the huge guy with the halo, who walked with a limp, whom Khalkeus the Egyptian swordsmith saw in his dying moments, have been Moses himself? I have to read Troy again to reconfirm this first assessment.
