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    The document summarizes the legend of how the Greeks defeated Troy using a large wooden horse. It describes how after 10 years of siege, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse and hid soldiers inside. The Trojans brought the horse inside the city, unaware that Greeks were hidden inside. That night, the Greek soldiers emerged and opened the city gates, allowing the Greek army to enter and destroy Troy from within. The document also provides background that the war began after Helen, wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris, prompting the Greeks to form an alliance to attack Troy and rescue her.

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    The document summarizes the legend of how the Greeks defeated Troy using a large wooden horse. It describes how after 10 years of siege, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse and hid soldiers inside. The Trojans brought the horse inside the city, unaware that Greeks were hidden inside. That night, the Greek soldiers emerged and opened the city gates, allowing the Greek army to enter and destroy Troy from within. The document also provides background that the war began after Helen, wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris, prompting the Greeks to form an alliance to attack Troy and rescue her.

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    Cabalooi de Troya BB

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    The document summarizes the legend of how the Greeks defeated Troy using a large wooden horse. It describes how after 10 years of siege, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse and hid soldiers inside. The Trojans brought the horse inside the city, unaware that Greeks were hidden inside. That night, the Greek soldiers emerged and opened the city gates, allowing the Greek army to enter and destroy Troy from within. The document also provides background that the war began after Helen, wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris, prompting the Greeks to form an alliance to attack Troy and rescue her.

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    IN SUMMARY

    Legend has it that on April 24, 1124 B.C. After ten long years of siege, the Greeks
    entered the impregnable city using an enormous wooden horse that the Trojans, in their
    innocence, introduced into the city. The first stories that refer to this event, mythical or
    historical, are found in literature, specifically in Homer's Odyssey: "It sings about the
    wooden horse that Epeo built together with Athena and that the divine Odysseus took
    to the acropolis to way of deceit, filling it with the men who destroyed Troy.
    WHY THE TROY WAR?
    After the abduction of the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta and brother
    of Agamemnon of Mycenae, the Spartans formed a league with other Greek cities to
    attack Troy and rescue their queen.
    THE IDEATION OF THE TROY HORSE
    The soothsayer Calchas observed a dove pursued by a hawk. The dove took refuge in a
    crevice and the hawk remained near the hole, but could not catch the dove. The hawk
    then decided to pretend to withdraw and hid out of sight of the dove, who slowly poked
    its head in to make sure that the hunter had given up, but then the hawk came out of
    hiding and finished the hunt. After narrating this vision, Calchas deduced that they
    should not continue trying to storm the walls of Troy by force, but would instead have
    to devise a stratagem to take the city.

    Under the instructions of Odysseus or Athena, the horse was built by Epeus the Phocid,
    the best carpenter in the camp. It had a hidden hatch on the right flank and on the left
    was engraved the phrase: "In the grateful hope of a safe return to their homes after an
    absence of nine years, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena." The Trojans, great
    believers in the gods, fell for the deception. The Trojans took it as a sign of their victory,
    the horse was brought inside the gigantic walls, unaware that several enemy soldiers
    were hidden inside. During the night, the warriors dismounted, killed the sentinels and
    opened the city gates to allow the entry of the Achaean army, causing the final fall of
    Troy.

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