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“The Democratic Trojan Horse”

Topic:
Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
A. B. Frost
Date:
July 31, 1880, p. 481
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Cartoonist A. B. Frost adapts the story of the Trojan Horse to the 1880 presidential election. According to myth, Paris, the king of Troy, sparked the Trojan War by abducting Helen, the daughter the Greek god, Zeus, by his wife, Leda. After laying siege to Troy for 10 years, the Greeks constructed a gigantic horse with a secret interior room into which Greek soldiers were placed. The rest of the Greeks feigned retreat while the Trojan Horse was delivered to the gates of the city. Accepting the gift, the Trojan soldiers celebrated their good fortune with a night of drunken revelry. With the inebriated Troy soldiers unconscious or stupefied, their Greek counterparts emerged from the wooden beast to capture and burn the city.
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