Talk:Thracian Horses/@comment-25853084-20141211152927

I believe the Trojan Horse was not built for the Trojans but for the Thracians who were paid to fight the Greeks in that war. The Thracians had the finast horses:

Diomedes and Odyssues had already killed the Thracian King Rhesos  (Thracians - fierce warriors and horse-breeders) '' and pinched his horses. Dolon described them as.."Finest horses he has ever seen and the largest - Whiter than snow and like the wind when they run" (Ilid X). ''



The Mares of Diomedes, also called the Mares of Thrace, were four man-eating horses in Greek mythology. Magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable, they belonged to the giant Diomedes, king of Thrace, son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on the shores of the Black Sea. Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse, was said to be descended from these mares. <span style="border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:normalnormalnormal13px/normalArial;"> 

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<p style="font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:22px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:normalnormalnormal13px/normalArial;color:rgb(56,138,246);"><span style="border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:0px;">''Theocritus (idyl, xiv.48) says that the Megarians asked The Oracle who were better than they. The reply was: “Better than all other land is the land of Pelasgian Argos. Thracian mares are the best”. ''

<p style="font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:22px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:normalnormalnormal13px/normalArial;color:rgb(56,138,246);">

<p style="line-height:22px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:normalnormalnormal13px/normalArial;">The Trojan Horse was built to seduce the Thracians not the Trojans.<span style="border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;">