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Trojan Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trojan Horse was a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid . The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer's Iliad , and before Homer's...
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A few of the men hid themselves in a huge hollow wooden horse, now known as the Trojan Horse, and the rest packed up into their ship and left, and one Greek, named Sinon, went into Troy as a spy. The Trojans thought the Greeks had surrendered, and were persuaded by Sinon to bring the horse into the city as a victory trophy.
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This came about, some say, after the capture or desertion of the Trojan seer Helenus 1, who, after telling the Achaeans that there was no hope left for Troy once the Palladium had been stolen from the city, declared that they should offer a WOODEN HORSE to Athena, making it so large that the Trojans would have to...
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When the Greeks had lain siege to Troy for ten years, without results, they pretended to retreat. ... They left behind a huge wooden horse, in which a number of Greek heroes, among whom Odysseus, had hidden themselves. The spy Sinon convinced the Trojans, despite the warnings of Laocoon, to move the horse inside the city as...
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St. Catharines – A 14 foot tall replica of the Trojan horse is making pit stops in many Niagara communities this week to help spread the word that Niagara deserves public, non-profit hospitals. ... People get it: that, like the Trojan horse, private P3 hospitals are a hollow promise that threatens our universal health...
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The Ontario Health Coalition touring the province with a 15 foot tall trojan horse to raise awareness of the dangers of health care privatization. The tour has been to Fort Frances, Emo, Rainy River, Red Lake, Dryden, Sioux Lookout, Thunder Bay, Geraldton and Hornepayne.
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