What the Trojan Horse Can Teach Donald Trump |
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By John Freivalds
Published 2/15/17
For you history challenged people, the Trojan horse was a method that the ancient Greeks used to get into the Kingdom of Troy which was protected by supposedly impregnable walls. The Greeks presented a huge horse to the Trojans as a gift. They hauled it inside the huge walls but it was full of soldiers who then opened the gates and Troy was overrun. Fact or fable from around 600 BC, who knows, but it was the origin of the phrase written by the poet Virgil in 49 BC “beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” And of course this was transposed in Appalachian English as “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”
