What was the Trojan Horse?

The story of the Trojan Wars was told in a poem by the Greek poet Homer, the Iliad. The Greeks and Trojans were at war for some years. In about 1200 BC the Greeks stopped besieging the city of Troy and apparently disappeared, leaving behind them a huge wooden horse. At night, while the Trojans slept, Greek soldiers who had been hiding inside the horse, slipped out from inside it, killed the Trojan sentries and let the waiting Greek soldiers inside the city. Soon Troy was destroyed. Although the city of Troy did exist, and the war did take place, the legend of the Trojan Horse may be just that – a legend.