![]() ![]() Of course, the Trojans could not.Īt this point, shepherds came to the crowd gathered around the wooden horse. Defiantly hurling a spear into the horse's side, he implored his countrymen to remember the last time the Greeks gave a gift to Troy without deception being involved. Laocoön, a priest of Neptune, warned the Trojans that the wooden horse was either full of soldiers or a war machine. Some wanted to bring the wooden horse into the city others, rightly suspicious, wanted to destroy it. In truth, they filled the horse with nine of their best warriors, including Ulysses, and then hid themselves in their ships behind the offshore island of Tenedos.įooled by this stratagem, Troy's citizens believed that the Greeks had indeed sailed home. ![]() ![]() He describes how, in the tenth year of the Trojan War, the Greeks constructed an enormous wooden horse, which they then rumored was intended as an offering to the goddess Minerva in order to gain her protection on their voyage home. Reluctantly accepting Dido's invitation to tell his story, Aeneas sorrowfully begins with an account of the fall of Troy. ![]()
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