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Originally Posted by HarryT
BTW: Purely for information, the line about "Greeks bearing gifts" is actually from Book 2 of the Aeneid, not from the Iliad:
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"
Which can be translated as:
"I fear the Greeks, even those bringing gifts"
It often surprises people that the story of the Trojan Horse is NOT in the Iliad. It gets a very brief mention in the Odyssey, but the story of the Trojan Horse, as we know it, comes from Virgil's Aeneid, not from Homer at all.
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I know. As for Homer, it's all Greek to me (tm Shakespeare), but I (used to) read Latin. I figure we'll get to The Aeneid after The Odyssey.
