The Trojan horse myth comes
from the Greeks, sometime before Christ. In
the myths horses are given to people as gifts, and are often fought over.
The horse drawn chariot is the main means of transportation of the
Olympian Gods; horses are often used in early Greek myths.
“Ancient commenter thought that Homers Achaeans had actually taken Troy
through the use of some sort of siege machine which barbaric inventiveness then
turned into a horse.” Most people
use this as an explanation of the Trojan horse.
The Greeks believe in huge animal like machines when captured near the
eastern cities that could of brought the allusion of the Trojan horse to destroy
Troy. Troy was designed to
withstand siege machines and the Trojan horse defeated it.
But in all reality Greeks captured Troy by a battering ram or the siege tower.
The
Trojan horse was an instrument of war used by the Greeks to gain access to the
city of Troy.