Q 01/05

The Trojan Horse story is NOT told in which of these famous ancient poems?

A) The Iliad

B) The Aeneid

C) The Odyssey

D) The Little Iliad

Answer · why

A) The Iliad

Homer's poem ends with Hector's funeral, long before the city falls; the Odyssey mentions the horse only in passing.

Q 02/05

Which Roman poet gives the fullest surviving account of the Trojan Horse?

A) Virgil

B) Ovid

C) Horace

D) Lucan

Answer · why

A) Virgil

Book 2 of his epic has Aeneas tell the tale to Queen Dido at a banquet in Carthage.

Q 03/05

Which Greek hero was the chief architect of the horse plan, and hid inside it himself?

A) Odysseus

B) Achilles

C) Agamemnon

D) Ajax

Answer · why

A) Odysseus

It capped a war in which he had also stolen the Palladium and dragged a reluctant Achilles into the fight.

Q 04/05

Which Greek craftsman physically built the horse?

A) Epeius

B) Daedalus

C) Palamedes

D) Calchas

Answer · why

A) Epeius

Ancient writers say he later settled in Italy and dedicated his carpentry tools to a goddess near Metapontum.

Q 05/05

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, how long did the Greeks take to build the horse?

A) Three days

B) Nine days

C) One night

D) Forty days

Answer · why

A) Three days

The same poet says the horse was chosen because it was the emblem of Troy.