"Was The Trojan Horse Real?" Inside The Historical Debate: By Bernadette Giacomazzo| Erik Hawkins.
"Was The Trojan Horse Real?" Inside The Historical Debate: By Bernadette Giacomazzo| Erik Hawkins. According to ancient mythology, the Trojan Horse allowed the Greeks to capture the city of Troy, but historians differ on whether this famous wooden beast was actually real or not. According to ancient Greek history, the Trojan horse allowed the war-weary Greeks to enter the city of Troy and finally win the Trojan war. Legend has it that the horse was built at the behest of Odysseus, who hid inside its structure along with several other soldiers to ultimately lay siege to the city. So epic was its construction — and its purpose — that it was forever immortalized in classical works. But did it even exist? In recent years, historians have questioned whether the over-the-top display of Grecian military might was little more than a myth, constructed to make the Greek army seem more like a godly force and less like the mere mortals that they were. Other classists suggest that the Gr...