What was the Trojan Horse?

Answer 1

The story of the Trojan Wars was told in a poem by the Greek poet Homer, the Iliad. The Greeks and Trojans were at war for some years. In about 1200 BC the Greeks stopped besieging the city of Troy and apparently disappeared, leaving behind them a huge wooden horse. At night, while the Trojans slept, Greek soldiers who had been hiding inside the horse, slipped out from inside it, killed the Trojan sentries and let the waiting Greek soldiers inside the city. Soon Troy was destroyed. Although the city of Troy did exist, and the war did take place, the legend of the Trojan Horse may be just that - a legend.

Answer 2

A wooden horse on wheels filled with Greek soldiers in ancient times. When the Trojans opened the gates and wheeled the the wooden horse in they also let in the enemy and thus lost the war. The Greeks fooled the Trojans. They told them they were tired of fighting and were giving the Trojans this wheeled horse as a token gift of their sincerity. Thus today, the phrase; "Beware Greeks bearing gifts".

Answer 3

The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The events of this myth take place after Homer's Iliad, and before both Homer's The Odyssey and Virgil's The Aeneid. Although this incident is mentioned in the Odyssey:

What a thing was this, too, which that mighty man [=Odysseus] wrought and endured in the carven horse, wherein all we chiefs of the Argives were sitting, bearing to the Trojans death and fate! 4.271 ff
But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the horse of wood, which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile, when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilium [=Troy]. 8.487 ff (trans. Samuel Butler),

the most detailed and most familiar version is in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 2 (trans. John Dryden).

Answer 4

A game.
About the war of Rome.
OR the real Trojan Horse.- A big wooden horse

Answer 5

a large horse statue given as a gift but full of the enamie soldures. it is a gift that is not what it seems in todays language I supose ??

Answer 6

Study your history books! That's what school was all about!

Answer 7

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