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A-Z: General definitions: Wooden Horse
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For ten years the Greeks besieged Troy. It was a stalemate, until Odysseus advised the Greeks to pretend to sail for home, leaving behind a wooden horse as an offering to Athena. The Trojans pulled the horse into the city, not knowing that it contained a picked band of Greek warriors. These emerged from the horse, opened the gates to the main Greek force which had now returned, and Troy was sacked.
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An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
King of Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea, and famous for his cunning; the story of his ten year journey home after the Trojan War is the subject of Homer's Odyssey. (Roman name Ulysses.)
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
Daughter of Zeus, Greek goddess of wisdom, patroness of the arts and of war (Roman name, Minerva.)
From Troy: An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
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