Meriones (mythology)
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Meriones was the Cretan son of Molus and Melphis or Euippe in Greek mythology. Molus was a half-brother of Idomeneus. Like other heroes of mythology, Meriones was said to be a descendant of gods: as a
Menelaus and Meriones lift the body of Patroclus (Etruscan urn, 2nd century BC)
Trojan Horse
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In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to sneak into the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in
Meriones (mythology)
…son of Peisenor, and kills Phylodamas with an arrow, and in Book 11 he kills Lycon. In Book 12, Meriones is one of the Greeks to enter Troy inside the Trojan Horse. Christoph Willibald Gluck gave Meriones a role in his 1765 opera Telemaco, making this character involved in Odysseus's wanderings after the Trojan…
The Mykonos vase (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side)
Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the Roman Vergil.
A replica of the Trojan Horse, used in the 2004 film Troy, stands today in Çanakkale, Turkey, the modern-day location of the city of Troy.
A replica of the Trojan Horse, used in the 2026 film The Odyssey during the film's premiere in New York City