Greeks bearing gifts


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Greeks bearing gifts may refer to:

  • The prophecy of Laocoön, priest of Troy, who in Virgil's Aeneid, tells his countrymen to "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
  • The mythological Trojan Horse which Laocoön foresees
  • "looking a Trojan horse in the mouth", the 1982 scene in the British sitcom Yes, Minister
  • "Greeks Bearing Gifts", a 1991 episode of Inspector Morse
  • "Greeks Bearing Gifts" (Torchwood), a 2006 episode of the science-fiction television programme Torchwood
  • Greeks Bearing Gifts, a 2018 novel by Philip Kerr
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