Who Tried To Persuade The Trojans To Destroy The Horse?

Laocoon vehemently urges its destruction. 57-199 A group of Trojan shepherds bring in the Greek Sinon, who has allowed himself to be captured in order to persuade the Trojans to take the wooden horse into the city.

Who persuaded the Trojans to accept the horse?

Sinon
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. Despite the warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates.

Who strategize the Trojan Horse?

Yes, it was Odysseus who conceived a plan for the Achaians (Greeks) to get inside the walled city of Troy.

Who warned the Trojans not to take the wooden horse?

Laocoon’s Punishment
Laocoon’s warning had failed. After ten years of war, the Trojans were so tired in both body and spirit that they were truly desperate for good news. The wooden horse was an obvious trick, but no one was willing to see behind it. No one was willing to listen to Laocoon’s whining.

Why did Troy accept the Trojan Horse?

A giant wooden horse was built and left at the gates of Troy and the Greek ships sailed out of sight. The Trojans, believing the war was over, saw the horse as an offering to the gods and as a gift of peace so wheeled it into the city and celebrated their victory.

Who tricked the Trojans into taking the horse inside their city walls?

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy. Under the leadership of Epeius, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days.

Who did the Greeks trick with the wooden horse?

The story of the Trojan Horse is well-known. First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.

Did Troy fall because of the Trojan Horse?

According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors. They sacked Troy after the Trojans brought the horse inside the city walls.

Does Trojan Horse still exist?

Or did it? Actually, historians are pretty much unanimous: the Trojan Horse was just a myth, but Troy was certainly a real place.

Is Troy a real story?

Much of it is no doubt fantasy. There is, for example, no evidence that Achilles or even Helen existed. But most scholars agree that Troy itself was no imaginary Shangri-la but a real city, and that the Trojan War indeed happened.

How did the Greeks trick the Trojans?

The Greeks finally win the war by an ingenious piece of deception dreamed up by the hero and king of Ithaca, Odysseus – famous for his cunning. They build a huge wooden horse and leave it outside the gates of Troy, as an offering to the gods, while they pretend to give up battle and sail away.

Which Greek god slept with a horse?

77 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : “Demeter bore this horse [Areion] to Poseidon, after having sex with him in the likeness of an Erinys.”

How did the Greeks defeat the Trojans?

Finally the Greeks built a large hollow wooden horse in which a small group of warriors were concealed. The other Greeks appeared to sail for home, leaving behind only the horse and Sinon, who deceitfully persuaded the Trojans, despite the warnings of Cassandra and Laocoön, to take the horse within the city walls.

WHO urges the Trojans to bring in the horse to the city?

Suspecting the wooden horse to be some kind of a trick, Laocoön had thrown his spear at it and urged the crowd to set fire to it, when two giant sea serpents appeared and devoured him and his two sons. Priam and Aeneas order the horse to be brought into the city to beg pardon of Athena.

Who tricked the Trojans into taking the horse inside their city walls?

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy. Under the leadership of Epeius, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days.

Why did the Trojans accept the gift?

According to the legend (or as best as I understood), the Trojans found the horse and thought it was the Greek’s gift to the odds for a peaceful voyage back home. The Trojans then seized it as one of the spoils of war, a symbol of their victory, little knowing it was full of Greek soldiers.

Who masterminded the Trojan Horse?

Conversation. Unlike the other famed Heroes of the Trojan War, Odysseus prefers using subterfuge to outwit his enemies. As the mastermind behind the Trojan Horse, Odysseus cements himself among the most cunning minds Greece has ever seen…