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The Trojan Horse scandal, also known as "Operation Trojan Horse" or the Trojan Horse affair, is a conspiracy theory [1] [2] that posits a plot to introduce an "Islamist" or "Salafist" ethos into several schools in Birmingham, England.
The Trojan Horse Affair is a 2022 podcast about the Trojan Horse scandal. [1] [2] [3] The eight-episode series is hosted by Brian Reed, formerly a producer of This American Life and host of the podcast S-Town, and Hamza Syed, a reporter from Birmingham, England where the Trojan Horse scandal had unfolded.
Pictorial representations of the Trojan Horse earlier than, or contemporary to, the first literary appearances of the episode can help clarify what was the meaning of the story as perceived by its contemporary audience. There are few ancient (before 480 BC) depictions of the Trojan Horse surviving.
Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
Death of Laocoön from the Vatican Vergil. The most detailed description of Laocoön's grisly fate was provided by Quintus Smyrnaeus in Posthomerica, a later, literary version of events following the Iliad. According to Quintus, Laocoön begged the Trojans to set fire to the Trojan horse to ensure it was not a trick.
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 López. It has reached considerable success in most Spanish-speaking countries as well as in Brazil .
Four individuals have been arrested in connection with an Alabama shooting that resulted in the death of a 21-year-old mother. Officer Truman Fitzgerald tells PEOPLE that Facebook live videos ...
Partly based on the Iliad, the book retells the story of the Trojan War, from the birth of Paris to the building of the Trojan Horse. For his part Lee won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. [3]