The Trojan horse is a story told in a Latin epic poem, “The Aeneid” written by Virgilius Maro. The story is about the Trojan War. The Greeks tried to take over the city of Troy to win the war but it resulted in a ten-year siege. To gain entrance into the city of Troy, the Greeks built an eighty-foot horse to fit a selected amount of brute soldiers. Master carpenter and pugilist, Epeius, built the horse. After the project was finished and the soldiers were fit into the horse, Sinon persuaded the Trojans the horse was an offering to Athena, the goddess of war. The Greeks took off to a nearby island of Tenedos and the Trojans pushed the horse into the city. At night, the brute soldiers came out and opened the gates to the city. The Greeks were summoned back and the Greeks quickly conquered and war the war (2015). The…show more content… For an effective horse, the horse has three main parts. The parts are the entrance and exit, the headquarters, and the look out. The entrance and the exit are located in the hind legs of the horse. Using a ladder to get there, the headquarters is in the stomach area of the horse. This is where all the brute soldiers were hiding. The horse’s neck would be a staircase in the interior leading to the lookout, which is the head of the horse. The leader, Sinon, would look through the look out to know if the horse had entered the city of Troy. Other models of the horse do not have a look out because it would have to have more wood and create more weight. In pictures, the soldiers hid in the headquarters and the carpenters build around them. Many replicas have used many different ways to build the horse and have used many different theories where the brute soldiers were hiding at in the horse. There is no description in the story on how the Trojan horse was built. Most of these models are based on what historians think what it would have looked from the Greeks building style and ways they
