Trojan horse

Trojan horse

The story of the Trojan horse was first told in Homer's Odyssey.



He wrote of Paris' abduction of Helen, which caused the Trojan War. He wrote of the city of Troy and the Spartan warriors who, led by Achilles, set out to conquer it. And he wrote of the gift of a huge wooden horse that the Greeks supposedly left for the people of Troy — a gift that held dozens of Greek soldiers, who conquered the city. Most researchers believe that the story is just that — a beautifully written story. It has yet to be definitively proven or disproven, though archeologists led by Heinrich Schliemann found evidence of a city that was destroyed at around the time of Homer's Troy in the location indicated by Homer.