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.
Wooden horse at the gates of troy.
The waiting greek army entered 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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
This part of the tale was of course meant to convince the trojans to move the wooden horse.
He wants the greeks to build an enormous hollow wooden horse.
They will leave the horse outside the gates of troy and the entire greek army will.