During the great Trojan War, the Greeks (left) offer the horse to the Trojans and the walls of Troy in the background to left.
According to Greek and Roman mythology, the Trojan Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans not to bring the giant wooden horse, gifted to them by the Greeks, within the walls of Troy. The horse was the Greek hero Odysseus' idea and the Greeks had a Greek named Sinon tell the Trojans that if the Trojans did not bring it within the city walls, the Greeks would defeat the Trojans. This illustration shows the Greeks (left) offering the horse to the Trojans and the walls of Troy in the background to the left. The Trojans do bring the horse within the walls and, that night, the Greek soldiers who were hidden inside the horse came out and opened the gates for the rest of the army—the result: the Greeks defeated the text reads: A great image of a horse. They built it of wood, fitted and carved, and with a door so cunningly concealed that none might notice it. When it was finished the hose looked like a prodigious idol, but it was hollow, skillfully pierced here and there.
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