In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Cauchi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>Besides the Aeneid, in how many other ancient writings (pre- and
>>post-Virgil) does the story of the Trojan Horse and, particularly, the
>>role of Sinon, appear?
>
>Lempriere in his Classical Dictionary cites the following references at the
>end of the article on Sinon:
>
>Dares Phrygius; Homer, Odyssey 8.492 and 11.521; Virgil, Aeneid 2.79ff.;
>Pausanias 10, chap. 27; and lastly "Q. Smyrn. 10" (whoever and whatever
>that is).
Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica; a late imperial poem on events after
the Iliad, not very wonderful but with a rather good episode in book 10
when the wounded Paris begs Oenone to heal him; she gives him the brush-
off ('Get out of my house and go to Helen'), then decides too late that
she does still love him after all and throws herself on his funeral
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