Wooden Horse At The Gates Of Troy
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.
Wooden horse at the gates of troy. They will leave the horse outside the gates of troy and the entire greek army will. 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. Article page for heroes of troy wooden horse. 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.
The waiting greek army entered troy. That was the end of troy. The greeks pretending to desert the war sailed to the nearby island of tenedos leaving behind sinon who persuaded the trojans that the horse was an offering to athena goddess of war that would make troy impregnable. Sinon also told the trojans that the wooden horse had been built on such a large scale to ensure that it would not fit through the main gate of troy thus preventing the trojans taking the horse and gaining the blessing of athena from it.
This part of the tale was of course meant to convince the trojans to move the wooden horse. 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.