After their 10-year siege on the city of Troy, the Greeks burned their camps and left on their ships, signalling their apparent surrender. They left behind a single soldier named Sinon and a giant wooden horse, which, according to the abandoned soldier, was meant to be an offering to the goddess Athena to ensure their safe passage home. Unbeknownst to the Trojans, who took the horse into their city as a trophy, there was a battalion of Achaean soldiers, led by Odysseus, hiding in wait on the inside. Once night fell, they laid waste to the city!