I think everyone knows Homer's story about the siege of troy, at which Agamemnon ordered to build a wooden horse, put soldiers in it and to wait till the troyan people brought it inside their walls.
Don't you think it's very unlikely? Don't you think the troyans would have had a higher IQ than twice their shoe size? I mean, they held off the greeks for 10 years, they hated the greeks! and then, when the greeks suddenly leave, they're stupid enough to get that statue inside their walls...
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Don't you think it's very unlikely? Don't you think the troyans would have had a higher IQ than twice their shoe size? I mean, they held off the greeks for 10 years, they hated the greeks! and then, when the greeks suddenly leave, they're stupid enough to get that statue inside their walls...
Some time ago I heard of a cool theory: Troy was built on a 'breach' in the earth. It had been destroyed by earthquakes many times in history. Now what if Troy's walls collapsed because of such an earthquake, which made the greeks able to enter troy? The god of earthquakes (and horses, and sea) is, as you all know, Poseidon. And the horse was the symbol of poseidon. So imagine the greeks, they would have been so happy with the earthquake that they honoured Poseidon by building a wooden statue.
I think this theory is far more likely than the horse-with-soldiers-in-it-theory. What are your opinions?
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