What andalucia said - thus the adage "beware of Greeks bearing gifts".
2006-09-21 04:33:53
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answer #1
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answered by Rockin' Mel S 6
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The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The events of this myth take place after Homer's Iliad, and before both Homer's The Odyssey and Virgil's The Aeneid. Although this incident is mentioned in the Odyssey:
What a thing was this, too, which that mighty man [=Odysseus] wrought and endured in the carven horse, wherein all we chiefs of the Argives were sitting, bearing to the Trojans death and fate! 4.271 ff
But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the horse of wood, which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile, when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilium [=Troy]. 8.487 ff (trans. Samuel Butler),
the most detailed and most familiar version is in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 2
The Greeks at that time consisted of many races, ie Spartans, Macedonians and so on including the Mycenaeans which boasted the House of Agamemnon, the kidnapping of whose wife, Helen, sparked the Trojan War
2006-09-21 04:36:41
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answer #2
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answered by quatt47 7
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C. Mycenaeans
Usually referred to as "Greeks".
2006-09-21 04:29:56
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answer #3
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answered by andalucia 3
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c. It may have been a trade war between these two early cultures with the Trojans losing after a drawn out siege.
2006-09-21 04:34:03
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answer #4
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answered by Robert B 4
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Are you just trying to get people to do your homework? Cus the point of homework is to learn something!
2006-09-21 04:53:04
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answer #5
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answered by ~mj~ 3
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c
Timeo danaos et donaferentes
2006-09-21 04:33:52
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answer #6
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answered by mfacio 3
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c
2006-09-21 04:32:11
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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c
2006-09-21 04:28:39
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answer #8
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answered by Chris C 2
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2006-09-21 04:33:06
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answer #9
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answered by girl 4
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C
2006-09-21 04:32:29
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answer #10
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answered by Don E 4
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