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"Build a big wooden horse on wheels," he said, "big enough for a bunch of Greek soldiers to hide inside it." So the Greeks did. Then the Greeks all pretended to sail home (except the ones hiding ... Finally everyone fell asleep, and NOW the Greek soldiers came out of the Trojan Horse and killed the guards on the walls.
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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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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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Trojan Horse Trojan Horse , also known as the Wooden Horse, a device resorted to by the Greeks, after the death of Achilles, to capture Troy ... Trojan Horse, also known as the Wooden Horse, a device resorted to by the Greeks, after the death of Achilles, to capture Troy. The story is known to Homer and is referred to in...
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File Name: trojan_horse_8011; Description: The wooden Trojan horse from Vergil's Aeneid. Source: Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland (Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909)71; Keywords: trojan war, aeneid, trojans, horse, horses, statue;
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where he constructed the Trojan Horse with Athena's help. Polygnotos must have associated this character with the wooden horse in his placement of him at the wall--verifying his role in the descruction of Troy.
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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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