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this needs disambiguous attention. Kingturtle 17:52 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)

Something better than disambiguation based on capitalisation? ( 16:26, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The Trojan Horse (the movie)

I've reversed the removal of the movie. We have disambigs all over WP. That's what encyclopedias are for: to provide references and examples. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 00:50, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

"There is a small museum founded in 1957 within the territories of ancient city Troy, near the Dardanelles (present-day Turkey). The museum includes the remnants of the city and a symbolic wooden but built in the garden of the museum to depict the legendary Trojan horse." -- This should be qualified by saying only some people believe it to be the city of Troy.

Original sources

Which were Virgil's sources? Only those few lines in the Odissay?

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Trojan horse

Q : Why it was built and what is it made of ?

A : It was built to attack a rival group and it is made of wood.

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Trojans breaching their own walls or gate to bring the horse in?

The article as currently written just says that the Trojans brought in the horse, and the Greeks then slipped out and opened the gait. Other accounts include the idea that because the horse was built too big to be brought through the gates, either the gates were dismantled or a portion of the wall itself was taken down, leaving the city vulnerable.

Is the omission of this part of the story intentional, or is it something we could add in? Rosslhatton (talk) 00:08, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Was it just a myth ?

But was it just a myth? Probably, says Oxford University classicist Dr Armand D'Angour: "Archaeological evidence shows that Troy was indeed burned down; but the wooden horse is an imaginative fable, perhaps inspired by the way ancient siege-engines were clothed with damp horse-hides to stop them being set alight. God knows better" 193.121.147.242 (talk) 07:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]