Can anyone tell me the story about the trojan horse in greek mythology?

Question

i really need to know about the story for my test tomorrow... i read the book but i don't get it..can someone please tell me the story??

Answer 1

if it looks too good to be true then it is

... the Iliad is a brilliant story of greed, love and deceit plus power of course :)

Answer 2

The idea was conceived by Odysseus. The Greeks built a giant wooden horse, which they made hollow on the inside. The bulk of them crawled inside and hid, while the rest pushed them up to the city gates. The Trojans, thinking it was a gift and sign of surrender, dragged it inside. This was a tragic mistake. The Greeks were then able to sack the city, and win the war, whereas if they had not been allowed into the city, they would not have been able to.

Does that help?

Answer 3

The Illiad, by Homer...?

Answer 4

Okay, so Paris steals Helen from Menelaus. Aphrodite makes Helen fall in love with Paris. Menelaus's brother and Agamemnon lead the Achaean troopsbesiege Troy to get her back. Finally, the Achaeans build a massive wooden horse which all the soldiers hid in. They brought it to Troy's gate as a "peace offering" which the Trojans accepted unknowingly bringing the Achaeans into the city. During the night the Achaean soldiers crept out of the horse and slaughtered the Trojans and destroyed their temples. Then set a course for home. Few returned safely to their families.

Answer 5

Depends on which version you're being tested on, actually.

Answer 6

Ok, so basically there was a Greek dude named Odysseus and he came up with a plan to end the 10-year Trojan War, which had begun when the Greeks set sail to retrieve Menelaus' wife. The was was at a stalemate nobody really knew what to do next. So Mr Odysseus instructed the Greeks to move and hide all their ships so that it appeared that that the Greeks had surrendered and left, as a parting gift they left a giant wooden horse in front of the walls to the city of Troy. The Trojans thought that it was a peace offering and dragged it inside the city walls. Unfortunately for the Trojans the horse as filled with Greek soldiers, The Trojans themselves were a little distracted from their celebratory drinking and were easy prey for the Greeks. They burned down the city and killed many a Trojan and the war was finally won.  

Answer 7

In the Iliad the Greeks besieged the city of Troy in vain for ten years.  They Odysseus hatched a plan.  The Greeks sailed away but left a huge wooden horse as an offering to the Trojan gods.  They had hidden some of their soldiers inside the horse.

When the happy Trojans came out of their walls and found the horse they didn't suspect anything and as Odysseus had hoped they took it inside the walls.

That night the Greeks sailed back into the harbor and up to the walls while the Greeks inside the horse came out and opened the gates of the city.  The Greeks sacked and burned the city and killed all the men taking the women and children into slavery.

Answer 8

The "Iliad" doesn't tell about the Trojan Horse. The lost poem "The Sack of Troy" tells about that, and Vergil's "Aeneid" repeats the story.The "Iliad" ends with Hector's funeral, and there was still a year of fighting after that. The war lasted ten years, because the Greeks couldn't break through the thick walls around Troy or cut off supplies to it. Wily Odysseus is credited with thinking of building a huge hollow horse with some men hidden inside it. Epeus built it. Some of the best men hid inside it, maybe a dozen. Agamemnon sailed away with all of the 1086 ships and hid near Troy. The Trojans came out and found Sinon who was left behind to convince the Trojans to take the horse inside the city. Laocoon opposed that, so Poseidon sent two serpents that killed Laocoon and his two sons. Part of the wall was torn down to let the horse be pulled into Troy. That night, the Trojans were tired and many were drunk from celebrating. The men in the horse came out and waved torches to signal Agamemnon to come. Caught by surprise, the Trojan men were killed and the women were enslaved.