Wooden Horse At The Gates Of Troy

From roman times on there have been theories that the trojan horse was really a siege tower or an image of a horse on a city gate left unlocked by pro greek antenor or a metaphor for a new greek fleet because homer calls ships horses of the sea or a symbol of the god poseidon who destroyed troy in an earthquake or a folk tale.

Wooden horse at the gates of troy.

That night while the trojan people were sleeping the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. Trojan horse huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the greeks to gain entrance into troy during the trojan war the horse was built by epeius a master carpenter and pugilist. This part of the tale was of course meant to convince the trojans to move the wooden horse. They will leave the horse outside the gates of troy and the entire greek army will.

In the canonical version after a fruitless 10 year siege the greeks constructed a huge wooden horse and hid a select force of men inside including odysseus the greeks pretended to sail away and the trojans pulled the horse into their city as a. That was the end of troy. The waiting greek army entered troy. He wants the greeks to build an enormous hollow wooden horse.

The trojan horse is a story from the trojan war about the subterfuge that the greeks used to enter the independent city of troy and win the war. They dragged the heavy horse inside the city gates and put it on display which is just what the greek general thought they would do gloat.