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>When the Trojans opened their doors, they found a giant wooden
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>When the Trojans opened their doors, they found a giant wooden horse. "Wow, neat!" they said, "Let's take it inside and go to sleep without investigating it."
>"You idiots!" said Laocoön, "Are you completely dense? How much more obvious can a trap possibly be for you to still fall for it?"
>Then two sea serpents appeared and ate Laocoön, as well as both of his sons, alive. They screamed in pain and agony while the rest of the Trojans stood by and watched.
>"Huh, that was weird" said the Trojans, "Let's get back to taking this giant horse inside our walls and leaving ourselves defenseless."
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>Greeks
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The Trojan Horse story isn't in the Iliad.
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>>845153
i suppose you believe cyclopes, sirens, Scylla, Charybdis and hades are real as well
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>>845236
(Not OP) Why not? Christians believe in the bible, that is talking snakes, talking donkeys, the leviathan, the behemoth, etc.

Homer is my OT.
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>>845153
>Trojan Horse
>picture of the Iliad

Dropped
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>>845153
>implying its not a metaphore for fifth columns and mass immigration

how did the greeks know over 2000 years ago?
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>>845153
Lets assume you've never read the iliad
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>>845236
Is cyclopes were at the Earth? That funny creatures was arising when females while pregnancy eat poison grass. Sort of mutation.
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>>845640
>That
These
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>>845153
Not in the illiad m8
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>>845640
Nah Cyclops' stories are most probably based of elephant skulls that were misinterpreted (one large eye where the hole for the trunk actually is).
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>>846162
Ancient Hellenes knew that elephants are.
Cyclocephaly is but rare at the Earth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3261905/The-tragic-cyclops-baby-born-one-eye-middle-forehead-mother-exposed-radiation-pregnancy.html
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>>846162
>>846217
Might was both variants at same time.
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>>846162
>pregnancy
There's a theory gryphons are based on ceratopsid skeletons being interpreted as having lion-like bodies and bird-like heads (which is accurate, from a comparitive anatomy standpoint, since they're both diapsids, and birds are their closest extant relatives). This is because they were supposed to live in Libya, where triceratops fossils are fouind
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Not in the Iliad
OP = faggot
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