While Troy may well have been sacked in a war, historians are largely unwilling to accept that it was ever destroyed by a crack team of Greek soldiers hidden within a giant wooden horse. Homer likely used the horse metaphorically as a literary device to symbolize the subjugation of the Trojans, who were known as “tamers of horses.”. Some modern theories have posited that the Trojan horse was a siege engine or a battering ram. Others have speculated that it represented an earthquake—Poseidon, the god of both horses and earthquakes, is depicted in mythology as having assisted in the Greek victory.
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