In book 2 of vergil'saeneid, the trojans are persuaded to bring the wooden Horse inside the walls of Troy because they believe the lies of Sinon. Sinon, a Greek agent of Ulysses posing as a deserter, tells the Trojans that the Greeks created the Horse as an offering to the gods for their safe passage home; he assures the Trojans that they will win divine favor – and thwart the Greeks' attempts to do the same – if they bring the Horse inside their city walls. That the Trojans do so to their ultimate ruin is, as they say, history. One of the interesting aspects of this passage is the narrator's “editorial comment” in lines 105–6: he notes that Sinon was able to fool the Trojans because they had no experience of theater. In other words, the Trojans – ancestors of the Romans – could not differentiate lies from truth, because they had not institutionalized (yet) a form of lying. The Trojans were simple, honest – sincere. The Vergilian narrator draws an obvious contrast with Greece; despite the existence of native Italian dramatic traditions, the Romans were fond of regarding drama as a corrupting Greek import. Vergil here inserts a bit of Roman antitheatrical sentiment into his epic “history” of the rise of Rome from the ashes of Troy. The dissembling of one Greek actor was responsible for the fall of Troy.