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[[Image:Trojan horse in Troja, Prague 2717.JPG|thumb|right|300px|alt=Wooden horse.|Armed Greek warriors hid quietly inside a giant wooden horse in a brilliant ruse which ended the Trojan War.<small>A wooden horse in [[Prague]].</small>]] | [[Image:Trojan horse in Troja, Prague 2717.JPG|thumb|right|300px|alt=Wooden horse.|Armed Greek warriors hid quietly inside a giant wooden horse in a brilliant ruse which ended the Trojan War.<small>A wooden horse in [[Prague]].</small>]] | ||
'''Agapenor''' was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] warrior hiding inside the [[Trojan horse]] along with [[Odysseus]] and [[Agamemnon]]; when it was wheeled inside the walls of [[Troy]] based on a deceptive and brilliant [[military]] [[strategy]], the fighters emerged during the night from the hollow belly of the horse, opened the gates of Troy, which let in returning Greek fighters from the ships; as a result, Troy was sacked and burned, a, which ended the decades-long [[Trojan War]], according to sources from Greek and Roman [[mythology]] such as [[Homer]], who wrote the ''[[Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey]]'', as well as the Roman [[poetry|poet]] [[Virgil]] who wrote the ''[[Aeneid]]'' centuries later. | '''Agapenor''' was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] warrior hiding inside the [[Trojan horse]] along with [[Odysseus]] and [[Agamemnon]]; when it was wheeled inside the walls of [[Troy]] based on a deceptive and brilliant [[military]] [[strategy]], the fighters emerged during the night from the hollow belly of the horse, opened the gates of Troy, which let in returning Greek fighters from the ships; as a result, Troy was sacked and burned, a, which ended the decades-long [[Trojan War]], according to sources from Greek and Roman [[mythology]] such as [[Homer]], who wrote the ''[[Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey]]'', as well as the Roman [[poetry|poet]] [[Virgil]] who wrote the ''[[Aeneid]]'' centuries later. | ||
Revision as of 13:02, 22 August 2010
Armed Greek warriors hid quietly inside a giant wooden horse in a brilliant ruse which ended the Trojan War.A wooden horse in Prague.
Agapenor was a Greek warrior hiding inside the Trojan horse along with Odysseus and Agamemnon; when it was wheeled inside the walls of Troy based on a deceptive and brilliant military strategy, the fighters emerged during the night from the hollow belly of the horse, opened the gates of Troy, which let in returning Greek fighters from the ships; as a result, Troy was sacked and burned, a, which ended the decades-long Trojan War, according to sources from Greek and Roman mythology such as Homer, who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the Roman poet Virgil who wrote the Aeneid centuries later.