Trojan Horse
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The Trojan Horse is a wooden horse from Greek mythology that the Greeks used as a trick during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy. It remains a famous symbol in Western culture for deception and sneaking past defenses, so the term is still used today to describe any trick that hides a dangerous threat.
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The Mykonos vase (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side)
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse (Greek: δούρειος ἵππος, romanized: doureios hippos, lit. 'wooden horse') was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, with the poem ending before the war is concluded, and it is only briefly mentioned in the Odyssey. It is described at length in the Aeneid, in which Virgil recounts how, after a fruitless ten-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse at the behest of Odysseus, and hid a select force of men inside, including Odysseus himself.