{"id":829,"date":"2011-03-01T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:13:02","slug":"analects-of-the-core-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/03\/01\/analects-of-the-core-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Virgil on Greek gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Men of Troy, what madness has come over you?<\/p>\n

can you believe the enemy truly gone?<\/p>\n

A gift from the Danaans, and no ruse?<\/p>\n

Is that Ulysses’ way, as you have known him?<\/p>\n

Achaens must be hiding in this timber,<\/p>\n

Or it was built to butt against our walls,<\/p>\n

Peer over them into our houses, pelt<\/p>\n

The city from the sky.\u00a0 Some crookedness<\/p>\n

Is in this thing.\u00a0 Have no faith in the horse!<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, even when the Greeks bring gifts<\/p>\n

I fear them, gifts and all.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Virgil, The Aeneid<\/a><\/em> (Book II, 60-70)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Men of Troy, what madness has come over you? can you believe the enemy truly gone? A gift from the Danaans, and no ruse? Is that Ulysses’ way, as you have known him? Achaens must be hiding in this timber, Or it was built to butt against our walls, Peer over them into our houses, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[5126,48735,4572,5128,388,5125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}