The horse was actually a rabbit!
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Does anybody actually believe the story? Even as a child I found it to be very suspect...........
I would say Obama is history’s biggest deception.
But maybe that’s for another thread.
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No, Trojan Rabbit
What next? maybe we will find out the Braizen Bull was just brazen bulls#it ?
Does it matter? It’s a fun story and has given us the ol’ “Trojan Horse” saying which is handy very often.
It was actually a horse’s Trojan.
I think the biggest deception was how the Allies fooled Germany on D-Day.
No, that title belongs to the democrat party.
beware of greeks bearing gifts
My daughter’s high school history books could not get the facts right on the Vietnam war. How could they possibly get the facts right on something thousands of years in the past?
I often wonder: The children of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob had a clear understanding of the difference between objective fact and allegories and dreams and wishful thinking. The Old Testament, above all else, reflects those distinctions. But to what extent did those distinctions exist in other ancient cultures.
Even today we argue over what the meaning of is is.
What next? Gilgamesh exaggerated the number of lions he slew in single combat?
“Adora Teos Hippos,”
So there’s your answer...it was Adora the Hippo...
You can put more Greeks in a hippo than a horse, anyway...
The horse is likely a myth, like the Washington cherry tree or Robin Hood. Perhaps more important though is that there’s no doubt Troy existed, in fact 9 cities on the treasured trading site over a couple millenia. And archelogical evidance of a war around the time cited by Homer, as well as earthquake destruction 30 or 40 years before which could have weakened Troy making an invasion attractive, Helen or not.
The Trojan horse’s name was Anthony Davis. USC rode that horse, crushing Notre Dame. ND had deceived itself, after leading 24-0, that they were conquering the hated Trojans. 55 unanswered points later, the Irish cries from defeat were nationwide (ha ha)
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Next they’ll tell us Bamby wasn’t real.