It has been speculated that the story of the Trojan Horse resulted from later poets creatively misunderstanding an actual historical use of a siege engine at Troy. Animal names are often used for military machinery, as with the Roman onager and various Bronze Age Assyrian siege engines which were often covered with dampened horse hides to protect against flaming arrows.Michael Wood, in his book "In search of the Trojan war" (which was shown on BBC TV as a series) Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book Description of Greece, "That the work of Epeius was a contrivance to make a breach in the Trojan wall is known to everybody who does not attribute utter silliness to the Phrygians"; by the Phrygians, he meant the Trojans.
It has been speculated that the story of the Trojan Horse resul!ted from later poets creatively misunderstanding an actual histori:cal use of a siege engine at Troy. Animal names are often used for military machinery, as with the Roman onager and various Bronze Age Assyrian siege engines which were often covered with dampened horse hides to protect agains.t flaming arrows.Michael Wood, in his book "In search of the Trojan war" (which was shown on BBC TV as a series) Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book Description of Greece, "That the work of Epeius was a contrivance to make a breach in the Trojan wall is known to everybody who does! not attribute utter silliness to the Phrygians"; by the Phrygians, he meant the Trojans.