What is a trojan horse

Many ancient foreign books are filled with many legends written by history, and no one really knows their truth, whether they really happened or just a fictional story invented by some to derive benefit and lessons from them, as some of them are believable and some are not. In this article, we will talk about one of these famous myths, which is the "Trojan Horse" myth.

Trojan horse legend

This legend begins with the city of “Troy”, which is a sea city located in Asia Minor, and the legend says that the “god of the sea” Poseidon built it with “Apollo”, the god of poetry and the arts, and it is a city with a very strong and impenetrable fortress. This legend began with the prediction of Cassandra and other soothsayers that the young son of the king “Paris” would be the cause of the destruction and ruin of this country, and the king then ordered the killing of the son, but the maid did not kill him, but rather threw him in a mountain.

Paris lived as a shepherd, until an argument broke out between the three goddesses, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena. They ruled Paris, and Aphrodite gave him the gift of the most beautiful women in the world. There was a very beautiful woman in Sparta, and she was the wife of the King of Sparta, and Paris went there and Helen liked him, so they seduced her, and she went with him to escape from her husband, the Greek king.

Paris returned to Troy, and they accepted him as a prince after they knew that he was still alive, and he lived with them. However, the Greek king of Sparta decided to mobilize the crowds and soldiers to take revenge on this prince and the son of the king of Troy, so he mobilized many soldiers and many ships, and prepared for war and fighting and restoring their honor, and they allied themselves with the kings of Greece, and headed to Troy.

After the crowds reached Troy and a great war broke out between them and thousands of them were killed, this army besieged Troy and they could not enter this impregnable fortress for ten years while it was besieged by them but they did not enter it. And after they despaired, Ulysses, one of their smartest leaders, thought of an idea that would enable them to enter the fortress. The idea was that the Trojans revered horses, so he ordered his armies to make a large wooden horse, and the strongest soldiers hid in it, and the rest of the army withdrew.

The Trojans believed that they had finally defeated their enemies, and they entered this large wooden horse, which they considered their booty, and they celebrated that night and drank a lot of wine and sugar. And the soldiers hiding inside this horse opened the door of the Trojan fortress, and sent their signal to the army to storm the fortress, and they entered it and shed a lot of blood and took the women and children hostage and captives for them, and the Greek king recovered his wife and lived with her after he killed Paris and the uncle of destruction and desolation in this city, and the prophecy was fulfilled oracles.