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Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
In the Aeneid (book II, 57 on), Aeneas recounts how Sinon was found outside Troy after the rest of the Greek army had sailed away, and brought to Priam by shepherds. He pretended to have deserted the Greeks and told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensure their safe voyage home.
Agamemnon and Nestor stay behind. The Argives leave the horse and Sinon at Troy and pretend to flee. Sinon is heavily disfigured and left as a messenger. He says that the horse is a tribute to Tritogeneia, but Laocoon sees through the deception. He tries to urge the Trojans to burn the horse, but he is struck with blindness by Athena.
The brown horse looks like he is enjoying every moment of galloping on the beach, and his dog bestie seems to love it, too. It's no wonder why the travel agency posts so many beachside scenes like ...
A 16-year-old horse named Cowboy passed away after he was left to starve by his previous owners. Elite Equine Rescue and Rehab said this kind of abuse happens more often than it ever should.
DENVER — A Mustang rescue nonprofit that saves horses from being rounded up and auctioned had two unexpected members join their group of rescues. At Banditas Wild Horse Promise, founders Amanda ...
The lusus Troiae was "revived" by Julius Caesar in 45 or 46 BC, [6] perhaps in connection with his family claim to have descended from Iulus, the son of Aeneas who in the game of the Aeneid rides a horse that was a gift from the Carthaginian queen Dido. [7]
Messapus (left) killing Aulestes in a 1688 engraving Messapus , ( Greek : Μέσσαπος, Messapos ) a character in Virgil 's Aeneid , appears in Books VII to XII of the Latin epic poem . He was a son of Neptune , a famous tamer of horses, and king of Etruria , known for being one "whom no one can fell by fire or steel" (Mandelbaum, VII.911-912).