"According to Virgil's Latin epic poem ""The Aeneid"", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?"
Trojan Horse under cover of night. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, ending the war. Metaphorically, a "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place. A malicious computer program which tricks users into willingly running it is also called a "Trojan horse" or simply a "Trojan". The main ancient source for the story is the "Aeneid" of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event is also referred to in Homer's "Odyssey". In the Greek tradition, the horse
Aeneid Aeneid The Aeneid (; ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman