The Trojan horse was a huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance to Troy in the tenth year of the Trojan War. The stratagem was devised by Odysseus, and the horse was constructed by Epeius. It concealed a team of Greek warriors within, among them Odysseus and Menelaus. The Greeks pretended to withdraw from the battlefield, leaving behind the horse and a soldier named Sinon, who convinced the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena. After the Trojans brought the horse into the city, the hidden warriors emerged and admitted the returning Greek army into Troy, which was then sacked.
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