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As Odysseus was the chief architect of the Trojan Horse, it is also referred to in Homer's Odyssey. [1] In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "wooden horse" ( δουράτεος ἵππος douráteos híppos in Homeric / Ionic Greek ( Odyssey 8.512); δούρειος ἵππος , doúreios híppos in Attic Greek ).
The earliest known depiction of the Trojan Horse, from the Mykonos vase c. 670 BC. The end of the war came with one final plan. Odysseus devised a new ruse – a giant hollow wooden horse, an animal that was sacred to the Trojans.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Legendary Greek king of Ithaca For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). See also: Ulysses Fictional character Odysseus Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy In ...
Following introductory on-screen words about himself and the Trojan War, Odysseus washes up naked on the shores of his home island Ithaca after twenty years fighting in and returning from the War. Scarred mentally and physically by his experiences, he is unrecognizable as the mighty warrior-king who left decades earlier.
The Achaeans entered the city using the Trojan Horse and slew the slumbering population. Priam and his surviving sons and grandsons were killed. Antenor, who had earlier offered hospitality to the Achaean embassy that asked the return of Helen of Troy and had advocated so [1] was spared, along with his family by Menelaus and Odysseus.
Odysseus comes up with a plan to create the Trojan Horse. He gets Epeios to construct the horse. Neoptolemos and Philoctetes do not like the plan, because they prefer a more direct battle. Epeios prays to Athena. The horse causes the gods to break out in a brief fight until Zeus ends it.
Alcinous promises to provide him a ship to return him home without knowing the identity of Odysseus. He remains for several days. Odysseus asks the blind singer Demodocus to tell the story of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role. Unable to hide his emotion as he relives this episode, Odysseus at last reveals ...
The construction of the Trojan Horse follows and Triphiodorus gives a long description (lines 57–107). The Greeks have an assembly in which Odysseus convinces the most brave fighters to hide with him in the horse and the rest of the troops to pretend they are fleeing from Troy, while preparing to come back the following night (108-234). The ...