Trojan War

The Trojan War was a ten-year battling between the Greek expeditionary force under the leadership of king Agamemnon in charge of allied Greek forces against the city of Troy across the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor, according to Greek mythology. The evidence for the existence of the war, which may have happened around 1200 BCE, is from epic poems such as the Iliad and Odyssey by the bard Homer and the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil, as well as extensive references in Greek literature such as Greek tragedy, according to scholars such as Elizabeth Vandiver. It was a stalemate throughout, with superior Greek numbers being offset by the strong city walls of Troy; it ended when the strategist Odysseus thought up the cunning device of the Trojan horse to trick the Trojans into letting warriors slip into their city, hidden in the hollowed-out belly of the horse, to open the gates at night, allowing the returning Greek warriors to enter the city and sack it.