object

Trojan Horse

Objects · Myth & story

The named hollow horse of the sack of Troy in later Greek story. Not a being, and not every later ruse-engine under a horse name.

Roman religion

  • Trojan Horse appears in Roman religion.

    Aeneid 2 tells the wooden horse that opens Troy. A named Virgilian stratagem-object, not a being and not the Argo.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.