CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Theogony, Menelaus, Scheria
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Troy have protected walls, therefore the greeks are unable to infiltrate. The greek give up and sail their ships far enough so they are undetected by the trojans. They put their most elite fighters in the horse and leave it outside of troy. They also leave sinon on the outside of troy and pretends to desert the greeks. The trojans question him, and he says that the greeks left troy and left the trojan horse as an offering to athena. He said that they purposely made the horse too big in case that the athena might think that the trojans made the offering instead. The trojan preist called lao(cid:272)oo(cid:374) sees through this tri(cid:272)k. (cid:862)i fear the greeks e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455) are (cid:271)eari(cid:374)g gifts(cid:863) someone gives you a gift and you think they have ultertior motives. Poeisodn sends a bunch of snakes to eat him and his children. The trojan brings the horse in to get athe(cid:374)a(cid:859)s fa(cid:448)or.
