A detailed Summary of The Aeneid Book 2

you out of your minds, you Trojans? Do you seriously believe

that your enemies have sailed away? Do you imagine Greeks

ever give gifts without some devious purpose? Is this all you

know about Ulixes? I tell you there are Greeks hiding in here,

shut up in all this wood, or else it is a siege engine designed for

use against our walls, to spy on our homes and come down on

the city from above, or else there is some other trick we cannot

see. Do not trust the horse, Trojans, Whatever it is, I a

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Ulysses pressed Calchas to name Sinon as the chosen victim, but he wouldn't. He advised him to take Troy's people and gods and run. Her ghost came to him and said that she was not fated to go with him. The serpents then slither up to the shrine of Minerva. He continued to tell the Trojans that the Greeks ending up losing because they had alienated Minerva. Why have you put on this armour? Where can you

go? This is not the sort of help we need. He told them that the Greeks wanted to go home, but Calchas prophesied that they would not be able to return home unless they sacrificed a human, just as they did before they left Greece. He determines to kill her, but Venus appears and explains that blame for the war belongs with the gods, not Helen.

Lines 58 - 199

Near the horse, the Trojans find a treacherous Greek youth named Sinon. They left the horse as a symbol of the Trojans' triumph over Greece.

Lines 403 - 567

Aeneas and his men surprise and kill many Greeks, but are too badley outnumbered to make a difference. He grabbed his weapons, intending to fight to the death, but an old man with his grandson came up to him announcing their defeat. After Sinon finishes speaking, two twin giant serpents come across the sea from Tenedos and eat Laacoon’s two sons at the altar. Aeneas remembers his father Anchises, son Ascanius and wife Creusa and heads for home.

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