The Trojan Horse: The Battle Of The Trojan War

The Trojan War, in Greek mythology was the war between the Greeks and the people of the city Troy. The conflict began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. When Menelaus demanded her return, the Trojans refused. Menelaus then persuaded his brother Agamemnon to send an army to fight against Troy. Troopships gathered at Aulis, led by the greatest Greek heroes, Achilles, Patroclus, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, and the two warriors named Ajax. Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get the winds that they needed for the journey. The winds they needed came and the fleet set sail for Troy.
The Greeks tormented and destroyed the surrounding cities of Troy for many years but Troy being well fortified
This is when Odysseus thought of The Trojan Horse. The Trojan Horse took three days to build, and it was made of wood. The dimensions of the entire Horse including the cart it was rolled in on and the wheels were 50 feet long and 47.5 feet tall. This idea for the Horse will be remembered in history forever and is considered a brilliant plan.
German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann conducted a large excavation in 1870 at the site where the city of troy was. This excavation unearthed a small citadel mound and layers of debris up to 25 meters deep in the ground. Later more advanced studies have document of more than 46 building phases grouped in nine different bands stating the sites inhabitation from 3,000 B.C. until abandonment in A.D. 1350. More recent excavations and studies show an inhabited area 10 times the size of citadel, making Troy an important Bronze Age city.
Bronze Age cities are cities that either smelted or traded bronze. Some of the major heroes during The Trojan War were Achilles, Io, Cyrene, Procne, Philomena, Atlanta, Medea, Antigone, Helen of Troy, Penelope, Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, Iphigenia Electra, Harpalyce, and
Odysseus, inspired by Athena, thought up the ruse to get a body of men inside the walls of Troy. First, all of the Greeks sailed off into the sunset leaving a strange and mysterious gift to the Trojans of a gigantic wooden horse which in reality concealed a group of warriors within. Just to make sure the Trojans took the horse within the city, Sinon was chosen to stay behind and tell a cock and bull story about the Greeks having given up and left a nice present. The Trojans took the horse inside the city walls but while they were enjoying a very drunken celebration of victory, the Greeks climbed out of the horse and opened the city walls for the returning Greek army, and the city was destroyed and the population was killed or enslaved. After Troy was destroyed Helen was taken back to Argos and out of all the Trojan heroes only Aeneas escaped and eventually set up a new home in