sack of troy definition Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/sack-of-troy-definition Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The Sack of Troy http://travelsfinders.com/the-sack-of-troy.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-sack-of-troy.html#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:54:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244995 The war might still have dragged on indefinitely had not Epeius conceived an ingenious plan: to build a massive fir-wood horse, conceal hand-picked Greeks inside it, and cause it to be taken into Troy. Soon the horse, its belly pregnant with armed men, was standing proudly on the othwerwise empty shore. For the Greeks had sailed away, leaving only the smoking ruins of their tents. And the wooden horse. Jubilant, the Trojans raced out of the city to read the inscription on the horse’s flank: ‘From the Greeks to Athene, a thank-offering for a safe homecoming. But some doubted this

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