THE WOODEN HORSE
Postcard by Frida
Dear Readers,
Remember the last time when I told you about the judgement of Paris? Well, the story about the wooden horse comes after that. You can read about it in a book called the Iliad by Homer… but I’m also going to tell you about it today.
Helen lived in a palace in Ancient Greece. Everyone agreed that she was the most beautiful woman on earth (but I think my mommy is the most beautiful woman in the world).
Helen was married to a very strong king named Menelaus. He wanted her to stay by his side forever and ever. One day a young prince named Paris (as you very well know) came over and because of the love arrow you heard in the last story, he took her away to his house/castle in a place called Troy.
When Menelaus found his wife missing - you can probably guess how furious he was. You can right? Well, if you can’t I will tell you. He stormed around the place, breaking everything, until a guard said: Chill big guy!! Why don’t we do the most sensible thing? And Menelaus said, ahhhh… okay.
So, they did the most unsensible thing! Which was…sending thousands of battle ships to Troy. All the other kings in Greece decided to help him get Helen back. Except for one guy, Odysseus, who didn’t want to go, but they persuaded him.
When they got there they began throwing up ladders and climbing up the walls… but the Trojans had better tactics and flicked them away like mosquitos. They battled for ten years until right when they were about the give up….STRIKE!!!!!!!!!! An idea came to Odysseus’ head. It was crazy… but it just might work.
So, everyone began to chop wood and slowly by slowly, Odysseus’ plan took shape. Finally, it was there! A giant wooden horse!
All the ships sailed away… but Odysseus and some of the army stayed inside the horse. When the Trojans woke up they were very surprised because there was a giant wooden horse in front of them.
One of the men from the army said this was an offer to Athena to give them good luck (with his fingers crossed behind his back). So the Trojans decided to bring it in, because they thought it would bring them good luck too. All day they threw a party. When everyone fell asleep that night on the tables and on their beds… Odysseus and the soldiers sneaked out, creeping through the dark and…
CLINK! SLASH! STAB!
…went the swords. (Don’t worry! They didn’t kill any people… only the soldiers). Then they took Helen back and everyone was happy… except Helen who missed Paris.
After that comes the story of the Odyssey. We’ll tell that one to you guys next time!
Erroso!
Frida
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This is super cool