00:00When the Trojans saw the thoughtful gift left behind by the same mortal enemies who'd been
00:04trying to destroy their city for the past 10 years, they had a hard time deciding what to do
00:09with it. Some people wanted to throw it into the ocean, others wanted to chop it up and burn it.
00:14However, after the Trojans spoke with the only Greek warrior left behind, they instead decided
00:19to keep it. See, Sinon told the Trojans that he'd fled his own people. According to Sinon,
00:25the Greeks had given up on their decade-long assault on the city of Troy, and he'd heard
00:29along the grapevine that his camp was planning on sacrificing him to the gods so they'd have some
00:34good weather as they sailed away. Sinon also told the Trojans that the massive, epic wooden horse the
00:40Greeks had left behind was a gift to the Greek goddess of war and arts and crafts, Athena.
00:46Apparently, the Greeks had made it so big that it wouldn't fit through the main gate of Troy,
00:50because they certainly wouldn't want the Trojans to steal it for themselves. But that wasn't going
00:55to stop the Trojans. They came up with a genius idea. They knocked down a massive part of their
01:01own city wall to bring the horse in and keep it for themselves. It was hard work, but after they'd
01:07done it, and with their trophy secured inside the city, all that was left to do was throw a massive
01:13party and celebrate the triumph. But as the sun went down and the Trojans ate and drank themselves
01:19into a stupor. Sinon snuck over to the horse, cracked open a trap door in the horse's belly,
01:24and as he did, 50 or so Greek warriors climbed down a rope one by one and then set out
01:30destroying the
01:31city. Or at least most of them did. One of the guys literally fell out the hole and died when
01:37he
01:37hit the ground, so rip to that guy. Sinon set a beacon fire to signal to the fleet that it
01:42was
01:42officially go time. And the entire army sailed their way back towards the city of Troy. The now
01:48mostly drunk Trojans were totally caught off guard. The Greeks began to sack the city, and Menelaus,
01:54the king of Sparta, rolled in with one thing on his mind. To kill the guy who stole his girl.
02:00Because that's pretty much what the whole war was even about in the first place. Menelaus had been
02:05mogged by Paris of Troy. Menelaus' wife, Helen, ran away with Paris, and when Paris was eventually
02:11killed in the Trojan War, Helen married his brother, Deiphibus. So as Menelaus marched through the city,
02:17he made a beeline straight for Deiphibus' palace. He managed to kill Deiphibus, but just as he was
02:23about to turn his sword on Helen to exact his vengeance for embarrassing him, Helen revealed her
02:28own secret weapon, her boobies. Helen took off her robe, and after 10 years of fighting, Menelaus
02:35dropped his sword. The city of Troy fell, Helen went back to her situationship with Menelaus,
02:41and she reclaimed her position as Queen of Sparta.