• Took place after the events of the Iliad from Homer and before his Odyssey.
• Greek King....Odysseus of Ithaca
• Epeius, son of Panopeus, BUILT the horse commisioned by Odysseus of Ithaca. He said Athena told him in a dream that she would help him build it.
  
• Greek Spy.....Sinon
• Helen of Troy.....investigated the horse
• Greeks pretended to sail away but really hid behind the island of Tenedos (pic above) in the Aegean sea near Troy. The pictures are from Livius.
  
• Livius page about Greece
  
• was the Trojan Horse really a battering ram?
• investigate the horse; do we accept this gift?
• Computer trojan horses
  
• The idea of a Sneaky Art Attack
• End of siege party!! drink and be merry!
  
• "Beware of Greeks baring gifts"
• MOVIES: sword and sandal epics: cult films; amazon: listmania;
• New Frank Miller film project: based on the 480 bc Battle of Thermopylae. "an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in a mountain pass. Though vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persian advance in order to buy time for the evacuation of Athens and the prep of a greater Greek fighting force."
  
• From Project Gutenberg: Virgil's Aeneid
• The Golden Apple & The Judgement of Paris
  
• Someone taking something of yours that you really love and you wanting it back
  
• Greek and Roman Mythology at FactMonster
• great site called god checker (aztec, african, oceanic, greek, roman, etc.)
• an amazing and comprehensive website of greek mythology called the theoi project
  
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). How much of his life was a lie and how much was real? You'll have to decide. Some links: HERE and HERE and HERE.
• The fantastic Perseus site...bursting full of Greek and Roman images and text.