One of the key warriors for the Greeks is Achilles (Brad Pitt). His counterpart, for the Trojans, is Hector (Eric Bana), son of King Priam (Peter O’Toole). Unable to defeat the Trojans without deception, the Greeks finally decide to bring soldiers into the city inside a wooden horse.
Are the stories true? Was there ever, really, a Trojan Horse? Homer, the ancient blind poet who appears to be the original source for the Trojan War, thought so. (He wrote an epic about it called The Iliad.)
Through the time of the American Civil War, most people believed that Troy was a mythological place. There was no city by that name. There were no known primary sources to prove a Trojan War had ever occurred.