Greek soldier Sinon was "abandoned" and was to signal to the Greeks by lighting a beacon. Then they burned their tents and left to Tenedos by night. An inscription was engraved on the horse reading: "For their return home, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena". Odysseus's plan called for one man to remain outside the horse he would act as though the Greeks had abandoned him, leaving the horse as a gift for the Trojans. Under the leadership of Epeius, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days. Literary accounts Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the Roman VergilĪccording to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy. Their names follow: List of Achaeans in the Trojan Horse Names In late tradition the number was standardized at 40. Other sources give different numbers: The Bibliotheca 50 Tzetzes 23 and Quintus Smyrnaeus gives the names of 30, but says there were more. Thirty of the Achaeans' best warriors hid in the Trojan horse's womb and two spies in its mouth. Men in the horse The Mykonos vase (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse, (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side) In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "wooden horse" ( δουράτεος ἵππος douráteos híppos in Homeric/ Ionic Greek ( Odyssey 8.512) δούρειος ἵππος, doúreios híppos in Attic Greek). As Odysseus was the chief architect of the Trojan Horse, it is also referred to in Homer's Odyssey. The story featured heavily in the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, both part of the Epic Cycle, but these have only survived in fragments and epitomes. The main ancient source for the story still extant is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. A malicious computer program that tricks users into willingly running it is also called a " Trojan horse" or simply a "Trojan". Metaphorically, a "Trojan horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.
The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, ending the war. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. But in the Aeneid by Virgil, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks at the behest of Odysseus constructed a huge wooden horse and hid a select force of men inside, including Odysseus himself. There is no Trojan Horse in Homer's Iliad, with the poem ending before the war is concluded. The Trojan Horse refers to a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks, during the Trojan War, to enter the city of Troy and win the war. See also: Trojan War in literature and the arts
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