Trickery? Stupidity?

The Greeks suddenly pack up and leave after ten years of war? So the Trojans quickly believe the ships are really just hiding behind a strip of land, but the Trojans immediately thrown open their gates. Laocoon doesn't sound particularly insane when he advises that the Trojans to be aware of Greeks bearing gifts. The Trojans had become too amazed by the wooden horse. Maybe because he mirrors their melodramatic histrionics, the Trojans believe Sinon, the liar left behind who pretends he was dumped as a traitor to the Greeks. He says all the right things, spitting on the name of Ulysses and squeezing out tears, but give me a break. When they're wheeling the horse towards the city, several times they hear noise in the hollow torso of the horse, but the Trojans ignore this. Morons! They ignore their own prophetess, Cassandra, when she warns them of this horse bringing their doom. Like Beowulf's pals before the expected night attack of Grendel, everybody gets drunk. So, the Greeks are easily able to emerge from the horse in a weird symbolic blur of birth and death.

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