Trojan Horse

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<p><strong>Trojan horse</strong>, huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Troy-ancient-city-Turkey">Troy</a> during the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Trojan-War">Trojan War</a>. The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Athena-Greek-mythology">Athena</a> (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable. Despite the warnings of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laocoon-Greek-mythology">Laocoön</a> and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cassandra-Greek-mythology">Cassandra</a>, the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army. The story is told at length in Book II of the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aeneid"><i>Aeneid</i></a> and is touched upon in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Odyssey-epic-by-Homer"><i>Odyssey</i></a>. The term Trojan horse has come to refer to subversion introduced from the outside. Beginning in the late 20th century, the name “<a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/trojan-computing">Trojan horse</a>” was applied to deceptively <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/benign">benign</a> <a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/computer">computer</a> codes that seem like <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legitimate">legitimate</a> applications but are written to damage or disrupt a computer’s programming or to steal personal information.</p><p>SOURCE:</p><p>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trojan-horse</p>