How long did it take to build the trojan horse?
From what I remember of the story, it was built overnight by the soldiers and sailors using materials from some of the ships. They then left it where the Trojans could find it in the morning and sailed around a bit of land until they were out of sight. Possible explanations Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote on his book Description of Greece [1] : That the work of Epeius was a contrivance to make a breach in the Trojan wall is known to everybody who does not attribute utter silliness to the Phrygians (1,XXIII,8) where by Phrygians he means the Trojans. There has been some modern speculation that the Trojan Horse may have been a battering ram resembling, to some extent, a horse, and that the description of the use of this device was then transformed into a myth by later oral historians who were not present at the battle and were unaware of that meaning of the name. Assyrians at the time used siege machines with animal names; it is possible that the Trojan Horse was such.[
