Virgil's denigration of the Greeks and admiring of the Trojans happens often in the first two books of The Aeneid. The Greeks, "through the divine art of Minerva" (29), erect a manipulative horse to bring down Troy, which is cowardly. Sinon's pretentious acts show how the Greeks are willing to stoop to the lowest levels of morality in order to gain the upper hand in battle. The Greeks show no respect to the gods with their tearing down shrines, but the Trojans on the other hand remember to take their "defeated gods" (39), even while the immense fires rage faster and higher in their beloved city. Trojans are not afraid of death, which is a hero like quality, and they are family oriented, which is proved by Aeneas' resolve to take his father with him.

The Greeks used the mountainous horse as "an offering for safe return" (29) home. The imaginative...