2007-01-01 05:17:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
look its a myth, if you don't think so then take it with my teacher cause thats my work ok! if you aren't helping then dont say anything
2007-01-01 05:33:51 · update #1
beware of greeks (your enemies) bearing gifts
2007-01-01 05:19:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trojan Horse story has several ramifications.
First, traditionally, it casts an honorable and somewhat naive society against a deceitful one - that is, we feel sorry for the Trojans who foolishly accepted the gift of the wooden horse, and we feel outrage at the unfair Greeks who "booby-trapped" their own "gift".
This interpretation, however, would be largely incorrect. In the accepted Homeric version of the tale, the Greek left behind made it very clear to the Trojans that the horse was NOT a parting gift to the Trojans. Rather, the story went, the horse was a gift to Poseidon, the god of the sea. Horses, you see, were sacred to Poseidon and the Greeks had a long journey ahead of them. The Greeks were not comfortable on the sea, and they feared Poseidon's wrath, therefore they had constructed the horse to appease him and secure peaceful passage.
This was, of course, a lie - the Greeks were banking on the Trojans to steal the horse to try to secure Poseidon's favor for themselves, and to keep the Greeks from getting home safely. The Trojans wheeled the horse into their temple and the Greeks were thus brought into the city.
The moral, therefore, is that once the battle is won, we should not get greedy or vengeful. If the Trojans had left the horse on the hillside and had retreated quietly back into their secure city, the Greeks would have lost once and for all. The Trojans could not be happy with victory, though, and got greedy - it was their destruction.
Worth noting, however, is that the gods did not appreciate being used in this way. Nearly every high-ranking officer involved in the Horse plot suffered hardship afterwards - several were murdered upon their return home. The master planner was punished by Poseidon with a ten-year long delay before he reached home. The plan worked, but at a cost.
2007-01-01 11:27:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trojan horse is also a mark of Odysseus's cleverness. He taught the whole plan up. It was also a very clever and somewhat dishonest act on the part of the Greeks. The horse was given as a gift from the Greeks showing they have surrendered. They obviously did not surrender and when night feel, the Greeks ransacked the city. Easy way into the city you see. Very smart. Your best bet at this point is to read the story or a synopsis on the internet. It is one of the most read pieces of all time and you should have no problem doing this.
2007-01-01 07:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats not a myth, the Trojan horse is true.
2007-01-01 07:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by Lo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was an unexpected gift from the Greeks to the City state of Troy to whom they were fighting a war at that time.. It was a wooden statue of a horse that was hollow in side. The people of Troy consider this statue a gift from the Gods. And they took it inside their city walls to the center of their Town. They had a party got drunk and went to sleep. There were members of the Greek army hiding inside. They came out while the soldiers of Troy were in a drunken state, Open the gates which allowed other Greek soldiers to enter and defeat the city state of Troy...................... In other words it was a trick that the Greeks used. And that is how this story of beware of Greeks bearing gifts got started........
2007-01-01 05:51:42 · answer #5 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The myth, the trojan horse, tries to explain that you should never take anything for granted. Once you get cocky, you leave yourself open for attacks, because you've let your guard down.
2007-01-01 06:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by lupinsgirl26 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
truth is here not myth~war was hi~tech:artisans of all crafts & battle builder were at the golden age of taking a prize with as little destruction as possible, the true art of war is to beat the opponute and not loss one man & the booty in conflict~the plan was to leave the entire battle field~ that would take an enormous amount of time and energy to go and leave the horse at the gate and to use it to ploy the victums to buy the plot~
2007-01-01 06:38:05 · answer #7 · answered by bev 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts.
2007-01-01 06:09:54 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes bad things come in nice packages
2007-01-01 07:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by mzoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a myth.
2007-01-01 05:24:48 · answer #10 · answered by Wiccan~Momma 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋