In A Giant Wooden Horse.
Odysseus was a leader of the Greek army that conquered Troy. It was his idea to create the gift known as the Trojan Horse as a means of getting a force of armed men inside the city gates.
Yes. The Achaeans = the Greeks. Athena was the goddess of battle strategy so she told Odysseus to build a giant wooden horse and to hide in it with all of his men. When the people of troy found it, they took inside their gates. Then, Odysseus and his men defeated troy.
The term, Trojan horse, comes from Homer's Iliad, which tells of the Trojan War. To defeat the enemy, Odysseus and his men build a giant wooden horse, place it in front of Troy's gates and hide inside. The Trojans accept the gift as a sign of surrender bring it inside their walls. They celebrate and get drunk. At night, when the town was asleep, Odysseus and his men come out from inside the horse. They open the city gates to let in more Greek troops and then destroy the city of Troy, winning the war.
86 men on 12 ships
to the island of the cicones
ismaros/kikones
Troy. Later, they plundered Ismarus, in the land of the Cicones.
Odysseus entered the city of Troy by using a Trojan Horse, a giant replica of a horse, and destroyed Troy from the inside. He wouldn't have been able to if Poseidon didn't send a sea serpent to kill the snitch, who was about to give away Odysseus' position. After Odysseus defeated the city of Troy, he gloated about how he solemnly defeated the town with no help of the Gods. This made Poseidon furious, so he cursed Odysseus and his men so they would go through Hell if they ever sailed again. Eventually all of his men (excluding Odysseus) were either killed by the Cyclops, turned into pigs by the witch, or fell into the endless pit created by Poseidon.
Odysseus' men are undisciplined and battle-drunk from their victories at Troy. Odysseus made errors in command by not insisting that the men come back. Odysseus and his men can be defeated if countered with enough force. People who endlessly pursue war will eventually be beaten.
Troy. Later, they plundered Ismarus, in the land of the Cicones.
They ate the sun god's cattle.
The Cyclops, Polyphemus, is inside the cave when Odysseus and his men enter.