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8 unusual facts about Trojan horse


John Bushnell

One of these stories involves his attempt to prove that the Trojan Horse was not a fable but a practical possibility.

L'oca del Cairo

to please the Viennese, but abandoned Varesco's libretto after six months because of its silly ending, a farcical travesty of the Trojan Horse legend.

Mesoporous silica

Like a Trojan Horse, the particles will be taken up by certain biological cells though endocytosis, depending on what chemicals are attached to the outside of the spheres.

National Railway

On March 30, 1871, the German Valley Railroad was chartered in New Jersey, including a Trojan Horse for the National Railway.

Operation Kilt

Sergeant Wilson then suggests a Trojan Horse, with a haycart containing a platoon member being placed at the farm.

Political warfare

In ancient Greece, a famous example is that of the Trojan Horse, which used deception for tactical military objectives.

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse.

Balso, the protagonist, comes across the Trojan Horse in the tall grass around Troy and promptly seeks a way to get in: “the mouth was beyond his reach, the navel provided a cul-de-sac, and so, forgetting his dignity, he approached the last. O Anus Mirabilis!”


Caballo de Troya

Caballo de Troya (Spanish for Trojan Horse) is a novel (the first of a series of nine so far) written in 1984 by Spanish journalist, writer and ufologist Juan José Benítez.

Megamix '93

This medley is a non-stop dance mix of Luv's greatest chart toppers (U.O.Me (Theme from Waldolala), Trojan Horse, You're the Greatest Lover and Ooh, Yes I Do), whose original versions were smash hits in the late 1970s in a large part of Continental Europe, South Africa and Mexico.

United States Cultural Exchange Programs

Oleg Kalugin, former KGB general and head of KGB operations in the United States, noted that these exchange programs were a "Trojan Horse," because they "eroded" the Soviet system.


see also

Bjarkamál

The nyktomakhi is of about the same length as Bjarkamál, and containing the same elements: The Trojan horse/the smuggling of Swedish weapons; Danes/Trojans are sound asleep when Swedes/Greeks attack them; plus the climax: The godess Venus informs Æneas that it is the will of the gods themselves (that is, Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Neptune) that Troy shall fall, and so he can honourably flee.