trojan horse

     

The Trojan Horse is part of the Trojan War, as tol in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The events of this take place after Homer's Iliad, and before Homer's Odyssey.

Trivia about trojan horse

  • The phrase "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" goes back to this gift in mythology
  • With Athena's help, Epeius built this object in which the Greeks hid
  • Ulysses devised this trick to induce the soldiers of Troy to open the city gates
  • It was the "gift" given to the Trojans by the "retreating" Greeks around 1240 B.C.
  • In ancient times Cassandra tried to warn her countrymen about this, but no one believed her
  • Old King Priam had this wooden animal, E-I-E-I-O, & it was full of trouble
  • In Act One of Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens", this object is dragged inside a city's walls
  • A type of virus is named after this surreptitious instrument of war used by ancient Greeks
  • This metaphor for a treacherous ploy is illustrated here by 18th century painter Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo