Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks bearing gifts may refer to:

  • The myth of Laocoön, priest of Troy, who, in Virgil's Aeneid, tells his countrymen to "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
  • "Greeks Bearing Gifts" (Torchwood), a 2006 episode of the science-fiction television programme Torchwood
  • "Greeks Bearing Gifts", a 1991 episode of Inspector Morse

Famous quotes containing the words greeks and/or bearing:

    “The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burthens.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)