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Sinon as a captive in front of the walls of Troy, in the Vergilius Romanus, 5th century AD. In Greek mythology, Sinon (Ancient Greek: Σίνων, [1] from the verb "σίνομαι"—sinomai, "to harm, to hurt" [2]) or Sinopos [3] was a Greek warrior during the Trojan War. Engraving after frescos by the Carracci, 1663
Sinon tells the Trojans that the Horse is an offering to the goddess Athena, meant to atone for the previous desecration of her temple at Troy by the Greeks and ensure a safe journey home for the Greek fleet. Sinon tells the Trojans that the Horse was built to be too large for them to take it into their city and gain the favor of Athena for ...
Athena, angry with him and the Trojans, shook the ground around Laocoön's feet and painfully blinded him. The Trojans, watching this unfold, assumed Laocoön was punished for the Trojans' mutilating and doubting Sinon, the undercover Greek soldier sent to convince the Trojans to let him and the horse inside their city walls. Thus, the Trojans ...
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, ... the Trojans were persuaded by Sinon, a Greek who feigned desertion, to take the horse ...
In Greek mythology, Sciron, also Sceiron, Skeirôn and Scyron, (Ancient Greek: Σκίρων; gen.: Σκίρωνoς) was one of the malefactors killed by Theseus on the way from Troezen to Athens. He was a famous Corinthian bandit who haunted the frontier between Attica and Megaris.
In Greek mythology, Ino (/ ˈ aɪ n oʊ / EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [1]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia.After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, [mǐːnɔːs]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.
In Greek mythology, Iasion / aɪ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə n / (Ancient Greek: Ἰασίων, romanized: Iasíōn) or Iasus / ˈ aɪ ə s ə s / (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος, romanized: Íasos), also called Eetion [1] [2] / iː ˈ ɛ ʃ ə n / (Ancient Greek: Ἠετίων, romanized: Ēetíōn), was the founder of the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace.