Editing Sinon (section)

===''Aeneid''===
In the ''[[Aeneid]]'' (book II, 57 ff.), [[Aeneas]] recounts how Sinon was found outside [[Troy]] after the rest of the Greek army had sailed away, and brought to [[Priam]] by shepherds.  Pretending to have deserted the Greeks, he told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensure their safe voyage home. He told them that the horse was made too big for the Trojans to move it into their city, because if they did they would be invincible to later [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaean]] invasion. His story convinced the Trojans because it included the former details as well as an explanation that he was left behind to die by the doing of Odysseus, who was his enemy. 

The Trojans brought the [[Trojan Horse]] into their city against the advice of [[Cassandra]] (given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but condemned to never be believed for not returning his love) and [[Laocoön]] (because two serpents came out of the water and strangled him and his sons, which the Trojans saw as a punishment for attacking the horse with a spear). Inside the giant wooden horse were Greek soldiers, who, as night fell, disembarked from the horse and opened the city gates, thus sealing the fate of Troy.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 2.77</ref> He was also an Achaean spy who told the Greeks when the soldiers in the horse had begun their fight.

This scene is in neither the ''[[Iliad]]'' nor the ''[[Odyssey]]'' but is in the ''Aeneid''; it is central to the perspective [[Virgil]] builds, in support of the actual Roman sentiment, of the Greeks as cunning, deceitful, and treacherous.