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RE: Snippets from the Ancient World: Trojan Horse, Gates of Hell, and Angamuco

in #history7 years ago

The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable.