[yarddog]

I doubt there was a real Trojan horse, tho I bet there really was a Trojan war.

Schlieman used the Iliad as a guide to locating the lost city and it proved accurate but that doesn’t mean every single thing in it is the gospel.

[agere_contra]

that doesn’t mean every single thing in it is the gospel.

As the Goddess Aphrodite turns up at one point and starts whacking people with a broadsword, I think you are probably onto something there.

[swain_forkbeard]

“I doubt there was a real Trojan horse...”

Somebody had to think up that trick. Why not somebody who was actually trying to solve the problem?

[Spktyr]

I suspect there really was a Trojan horse, though not something on the Hollywood scale.

Modern archaeology has uncovered much documentary evidence that the Trojan War really did take place - in addition, a Trojan Horse really wouldn’t have taken any new technology that wasn’t used in the siege engines and wagons of the day.

[DesScorp]

“Schlieman used the Iliad as a guide to locating the lost city and it proved accurate but that doesn’t mean every single thing in it is the gospel.”

Was so! And Apollo will punish you for saying differently!

[Little Ray]

Some folks think the Trojan Horse was a siege tower. It would have been pretty unique for the period.