They dragged the heavy horse inside the city gates and put it on display which is just what the greek general thought they would do gloat.
Wooden horse at the gates of troy.
That was the end of troy.
In the canonical version after a fruitless 10 year siege the greeks constructed a huge wooden horse and hid a select force of men inside including odysseus the greeks pretended to sail away and the trojans pulled the horse into their city as a.
He wants the greeks to build an enormous hollow wooden horse.
The waiting greek army entered troy.
That night while the trojan people were sleeping the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates.
Trojan horse huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the greeks to gain entrance into troy during the trojan war the horse was built by epeius a master carpenter and pugilist.
Article page for heroes of troy wooden horse.
They will leave the horse outside the gates of troy and the entire greek army will.
This part of the tale was of course meant to convince the trojans to move the wooden horse.
The greeks pretending to desert the war sailed to the nearby island of tenedos leaving behind sinon who persuaded the trojans that the horse was an offering to athena goddess of war that would make troy impregnable.