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Aeneas: Trojan War

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In the beginning of book 2 Aeneas tells dido how his story of the trojan war begins. He starts with how they came up with a plan to build a giant wooden horse to hide all the soldiers inside because the greeks were loosing. Aeneas wants to trick the trojans into bringing the horse inside their walls, by leaving it behind as they leave defeated. The Priest doesn't trust the the horse because he fears it will have special gifts inside for the greeks. Sinon was left behind to present the horse to the greeks, because of false rumors aeneas had a hatred for sinon. Sinon soon explains that the horse is a offering for minerva. Later that evening two sea serpents make there way to the shore and consume laocoon's sons because he threw a spear at the
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