Was the Trojan Horse a Historic reality, how Ulysses implemented it?

摘要

Doureios Hippos or the Trojan Horse was the huge wooden structure, built by the Achaeans on Odysseus' suggestion, hiding a number of fully armed warriors inside, that eventually ended the ten years long siege of Troy (1194-1184 BC). The Greeks, pretending to depart and give up siege, left it before the city walls as offering to the gods. The Trojan Horse was eventually moved inside the city walls, at night the hidden men emerged and opened the gates, thus permitting the Greek army to enter Troy and conquer it. From the references in the Iliad and vase paintings, archaeological evidence concerning the Troy siege, anthropometrical standards of the time and the Homeric shipbuilding, a reconstruction is attempted here.