There are wooden rocking horses made today that will allow adults to ride them, they are not your average sized child's rocking horse with wheels and there are also kids wooden toys with wheels. But to date there hasn't been anything to quite match the hefty proportions of the wooden horse with wheels used to infiltrate the city of Troy.

After the events of the Iliad and the death of Hector, the Trojan War still wasn't over.Troy was the city the Greeks couldn't "Take" from the Trojans. Troys defences and soldiers were too well organized. That was until a Greek king, Odysseus of Ithaca, came up with an idea to build a "great" wooden horse on wheels. This would be big enough to accommodate a large garrison of Greek soldiers. The other Greeks would then make sail and lay off shore, leaving the soldiers inside the wooden horse and one Greek soldier left nearby the horse, to set their the trap.

The Trojans watched as the Greeks seemed to set sail for home. Thinking they had won the war, the Trojans came out of the cities walls to find the "great" wooden horse and the Greek soldier alone. The Greek soldier was ready to carry out the plan. He told the Trojans he had been left behind because he didn't want to fight for the Greeks and the horse was left as an offering to Athena.

The Trojans decided to take the "great" wooden horse into their city and use it as an offering themselves to Athena. When they got to the gates of the city the horse did not fit through, so they demolished one side of the gates to allow passage. Once in the City the Trojans began their celebrations, they had fought off the Greeks and had an offering to give Athena. This was a night to celebrate!

As the night progressed more and more of the Trojans became drunk and fell asleep, there were only the guards on the walls and at the gate left to defend the city now. This was the ideal time for the lone Greek soldier to let out his fellow soldiers from the wooden horse. They systematically killed the guards and summoned their fellow soldiers from the wooden horse and the sailing boats. Soon the Greeks had the manpower to overcome what resistance there was and take the City of Troy.

Most of the Trojan soldiers were killed, but for any that survived it would be slavery back in Greece that awaited them, the women and the children.

This story does not actually appear in the Iliad or the Odyssey, but it is told in Virgil's Aeneid and in other ancient sources.