The idea with the Trojan horse

THE TROJAN HORSE

The Greeks and the Trojans had been at war tor ten years.

The exhausted Greek army was camped outside the city of Troy, when the Greek king Odysseus suddenly had a good idea.

He knew that horses were sacred animals to the Trojans, so he decided to build a huge, hollow wooden horse on wheels. A horse big enough for some of his soldiers to hide inside.

The horse was duly built and some of the soldiers climbed inside. The others set fire to the camp and pretended they were going to sail back home to Greece, defeated. In fact they hid nearby.

The Trojans, delighted that the Greeks had let, immediately came out of the city gates and found the horse. They were very curious indeed. As part of the plan the Greeks had left behind one soldier hiding near the horse. The Trojans soon found him and asked him about the horse.

He said it was an offering to the goddess Athena

The Trojans tried to pull the huge horse into the city. However, it was so big that they had to tear down part of the city wall to get it in. They took it to the temple of Athena, and had a big party to celebrate victory over the Greeks and the end of the war

Finally, everyone was exhausted from all the festivities and they fell asleep. Now the Greek soldiers crept out of the horse. They killed all the guards on the walls and then signalled to the Greeks on the other side to attack Troy.

There was a bloody battle and the Greeks won easily .All the Trojan men were killed, and the women and children were taken back to Greece as slaves.

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