- Alternative names
- the Wooden Horse
- Information
- used to sack Troy
- Created by
- 👤 Epeios (horse-builder)
- Created at
- 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Troy (Troad)
- Created from
- 🌍 the Grove of Apollo (Mt Ida)
- Used by
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Epeios (horse-builder) 👤 Odysseus 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy
- Used at
- 🌍 Troy (Troad)
- Dedicated at
- 🏛️ the Temple of Athena at Troy
- Related Entities
- 👤 Acamas (Athenian) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Antenor (Trojan) 👤 Anticlos 👤 Athena 👤 Calchas 👤 Cassandra 👤 Deiphobos (Trojan) 👤 Demophon (Athenian) 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Epeios (horse-builder) 👤 Hera 👤 Helenos (Trojan) 👤 Laocoon 👤 Helen 👤 Priam 👤 Menelaos 👤 Menestheus (Athenian) 👤 Neoptolemos 👤 Odysseus 👤 Sinon 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy 👥 the Defenders of Troy 👤 Teucros (Salamian) 🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 the Beach of Troy 🌍 the Citadel of Troy 🏛️ the Walls of Troy 🏛️ the Temple of Athena at Troy 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🏺 the Bones of Pelops 👤 Prylis 🌍 the Grove of Apollo (Mt Ida) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo Carneios at Sparta 🏺 the Tools of Epeios
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.14 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.17 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.19 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 202-228 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 330-364 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 930-950 📖 Pausanias 1.23.8 📖 Pausanias 10.9.12 📖 Pausanias 2.29.4 📖 Homer, Odyssey 8.485-8.520 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.265-4.289 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.467-11.567 📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 1-47 📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 512-567 📖 Pausanias 3.13.3-3.13.5 📖 Pausanias 10.26.2-10.26.4 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.8-5.25 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.15-5.20 📖 Little Iliad fr. 12 West 📖 Little Iliad Argumentum 4 West 📖 Little Iliad Argumentum 5 West 📖 Sack of Troy Argumentum 1 West 📖 Sack of Troy Argumentum 2-4 West 📖 Sack of Troy fr. 1 West 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 16 📖 Lucian, Hippias, or the Bath 2 📖 Ovid, Ibis 483-484 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 7 = fr. 197-197a Pfeiffer 📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 810-843
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Euripides, Trojan Women Little Iliad Pausanias Sack of Troy Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, Hippias, or the Bath Ovid, Ibis Aeschylus, Agamemnon Callimachus, Iambi
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Odyssey 8.485-8.520
- Depictions
- 🎨 Fragment of Cycladic Relief Terracotta Pithos or Amphora (CAMU Δ 871) 🎨 Wall Paintings from House of Menander / Casa del Menandro I 10, 4, Pompeii (PALP r1-i10-p4-space-4) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling IX 7, 16, Pompeii (MANN 120176; LIMC Equus Troianus 7; PALP r9-i7-p16-space-a) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Cipius Pamphilus VII 6, 38, Pompeii (MANN 9010; PALP r7-i6-p38-space-23) 🎨 Wall Paintings from atrium of the Villa Arianna, Stabiae (MANN 9527, 9893)
- Reported depictions
- 🎨 Bronze Statue of "Wooden Horse" on the Acropolis, Athens, by Strongylion (LIMC Menestheus 3) 🎨 Wall Painting of the Fall of Troy in the Lesche of the Cnidians by Polygnotos, Delphi (LIMC Ilioupersis 25) 🎨 Bronze Statue of the Trojan Horse at Delphi (LIMC Equus Troianus 28)