The Legend of the Trojan Horse

A proud Greek posing with the large wooden horse

The legend of the Trojan Horse is a very interesting legend. Some people think it really happend because some of our scientists have researched enough to find out.

The war, in the legend , was fought for a Greek princess named Helen who was kidnapped by the Trojan king, Paris. Helen was the most beautiful woman in the land. Some people now think that the war was fought for treasure and gold because the Greeks didn't have that stuff. So either for treasure and gold or for the love of a princess the Greeks set off with their leader Agamemnon to surprise the Trojan people with their bow and arrows and other weapons.

The war went on for ten years and never stopped until they finally came up with some nasty trickery and built a gigantic horse. The horse was made of wood and could fit thirty men. Some of the Greek army crawled inside the horse. The rest of the army left on a fleet of boats.

Then the Trojans, not seeing any Greeks, opened the city gates and saw the giant horse and, thinking it was a gift, they pulled it inside the city. That night the rest of the army came back and the men in the horse crawled out and let the army in the gates. Sadly they killed all the Trojan people. Also they took Princess Helen home.

Princess Helen was also called the face that launched a thousand ships because they say her beauty made a thousand ships sail to fight the war.