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While Trojans are mourning after Hector’s death, the Greeks are making plans to enter the city, using a hollowed-out wooden horse.
The plan is being coordinated by Odysseus. The Greeks leave the horse outside the city gates, and then go to the beach and hide in their ships, behind a small island. Paris understands the danger and warns Priam about the horse. He says they should burn it to the ground. Priam disagrees, believing the priests' talk of the horse being a "peace offering by the Greeks". The Trojans take the horse into the city and celebrate their assumed victory.
A Trojan scout sees the Greeks, waiting on their ships, at the bay, but he gets killed by an archer. The whole of Troy is in the middle of the celebration, drunken, when the Greeks, come out of the wooden horse, attack the Trojans and open the gates of Troy. The entire Greek army entres the city.
Helen and Andromeche, her son, gather a large group of women and children and other Trojans and take the secret path Hector showed to Andromeche. Paris refuses to accompany them and gives the sword of Troy to Aeneas, quoting his father "So long the sword of Troy remains in the hands of a Trojan, our people have a future". Priam is killed by Agamemnon while he was yelling to the Greeks who were breaking statues in the temple, "Have you no honor?
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