| There are wooden rocking horses made today that | | | | was left as an offering to Athena. |
| will allow adults to ride them, they are not your | | | | The Trojans decided to take the "great" wooden |
| average sized child's rocking horse with wheels and | | | | horse into their city and use it as an offering |
| there are also kids wooden toys with wheels. But to | | | | themselves to Athena. When they got to the gates |
| date there hasn't been anything to quite match the | | | | of the city the horse did not fit through, so they |
| hefty proportions of the wooden horse with wheels | | | | demolished one side of the gates to allow passage. |
| used to infiltrate the city of Troy. | | | | Once in the City the Trojans began their celebrations, |
| After the events of the Iliad and the death of | | | | they had fought off the Greeks and had an offering |
| Hector, the Trojan War still wasn't over.Troy was | | | | to give Athena. This was a night to celebrate! |
| the city the Greeks couldn't "Take" from the Trojans. | | | | As the night progressed more and more of the |
| Troys defences and soldiers were too well organized. | | | | Trojans became drunk and fell asleep, there were |
| That was until a Greek king, Odysseus of Ithaca, | | | | only the guards on the walls and at the gate left to |
| came up with an idea to build a "great" wooden | | | | defend the city now. This was the ideal time for the |
| horse on wheels. This would be big enough to | | | | lone Greek soldier to let out his fellow soldiers from |
| accommodate a large garrison of Greek soldiers. The | | | | the wooden horse. They systematically killed the |
| other Greeks would then make sail and lay off shore, | | | | guards and summoned their fellow soldiers from the |
| leaving the soldiers inside the wooden horse and one | | | | wooden horse and the sailing boats. Soon the Greeks |
| Greek soldier left nearby the horse, to set their the | | | | had the manpower to overcome what resistance |
| trap. | | | | there was and take the City of Troy. |
| The Trojans watched as the Greeks seemed to set | | | | Most of the Trojan soldiers were killed, but for any |
| sail for home. Thinking they had won the war, the | | | | that survived it would be slavery back in Greece that |
| Trojans came out of the cities walls to find the | | | | awaited them, the women and the children. |
| "great" wooden horse and the Greek soldier alone. | | | | This story does not actually appear in the Iliad or the |
| The Greek soldier was ready to carry out the plan. | | | | Odyssey, but it is told in Virgil's Aeneid and in other |
| He told the Trojans he had been left behind because | | | | ancient sources. |
| he didn't want to fight for the Greeks and the horse | | | | |