The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad and only appears briefly in the Odyssey.

The earliest surviving accounts of the Trojan War — Homer's Iliad — end before the war concludes and never describe the wooden horse. The Odyssey mentions it only in passing. The story reaches its fullest telling in Virgil's Aeneid, written centuries later during the time of Augustus. This means the Trojan Horse as we know it is a later addition to the myth, not part of the original oral tradition that Homer recorded.