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The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War , as told in Virgil 's Latin Epic Poem '' The Aeneid ''. The events of this myth take place after Homer 's '' Iliad '', and before both Homer's '' The Odyssey '' and Virgil 's '' The Aeneid ''. Although this incident is mentioned in the ''Odyssey'' (« ''What a thing was this, too, which that mighty man wrought and endured in the '''carven horse''', wherein all we chiefs of the Argives were sitting, bearing to the Trojans death and fate!'' » [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=hom.+od.+4.271 4.271 ff , and « ''But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the '''horse of wood''', which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile, when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilios » [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=hom.+od.+8.487 8.487 ff ), the most detailed and most familiar version is in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', Book 2 : .]] The Greek and filled with Greek warriors led by Odysseus . The rest of the Greek army appeared to leave, but actually hid behind Tenedos . Meanwhile, a Greek spy, Sinon , convinced the Trojans the horse was a gift despite the warnings of Laocoon and Cassandra ; Helen and Deiphobus even investigated the horse; in the end, the Trojans accepted the gift. It should be noted here that the horse was the sacred animal of Poseidon —during the contest with Athena over the patronship of Athens , Poseidon gave men the horse, whilst Athena gave the Olive Tree . The Trojans hugely celebrated the end of the siege, so that, when the Greeks emerged from the horse, the city was in a drunken stupor. The Greek warriors opened the city gates to allow the rest of the army to enter, and the city was pillaged ruthlessly —all the men were killed, and all the women and children were taken into slavery. The '' Trojan Bell '' is an ancillary component to the myth; according to lore, it signaled the beginning of the assault on Troy. The Trojan horse may or may not actually have been built and used. The only evidence known to modern scholars is literary references written long after the alleged event. Within the territories of the ancient city of Troy, near the Dardanelles (modern Turkey ), is a small museum, founded in 1955 , that includes the remnants of the city, along with a wooden horse built in the museum garden to depict the legendary Trojan horse. The wooden horse from the recent film '' Troy '' is displayed on the seafront in the nearby town of Çanakkale . From this mythological episode comes the term ''Trojan horse'' as a general term describing an apparent advantage that is actually a trick; "Trojan horse" tactics are those considered sneaky, underhand, deceitful. The term can also refer to a "sneak attack" in general. The term "Trojan" is also widely used today to refer to malicious computer software that looks harmless to the user but actually contains a virus. Book II of Virgil 's '' Aeneid '' covers the siege of Troy, and includes these lines spoken by Laocoön : equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis. Meaning (depending on the translation) "Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bringing gifts", the lines are the origin of the modern adage to "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." )]] There has been some modern speculation that the Trojan Horse may have been a Battering Ram resembling, to some extent, a horse, and that the description of the use of this device was then transformed into a myth by later Oral Historians who were not present at the battle and were unaware of that meaning of the name. THE FORTY IN THE HORSE SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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