History MythBusters; Trojan Horse!

   In the story of the trojan horse there is both fact and fiction. How do we know what is fact and what is fiction? The story was just passed around by word of mouth from greek soldiers who survived the war and then eventually documented but there are no pictures of this great wooden horse? so did it really exsist? It is believed that it did but that doesnt mean everything about it is fact.It is true that soldiers were hidden in the wooden horse fully armed while other soldiers waited a short distance from the city of Troy. The horse wasnt a gift though like it was told in the story, the soldiers of troy thought it was some type of greek idol and believed to have captured it and brought it into there city. They feasted in celebration of there victory. Once the people of troy were asleep the greeks came out of the horse opened up the gates of the other soldiers and began to burn down houses and kill hundreds of men women and children. All in all the horse did exist and the war was caused due to the people of troy taking Helen, but how the people of troy came to aquire the horse was not true or at least there are multiple different perspectives as to how they aquired it. In the end though it is fact that the greeks gained control over troy and won back helen all due to the mere stupidity of the people of troy.