There was a joking comment made about this on Car Talk, but now I’m wondering. Of course, no one was able to take a photograph of the horse, when it was around, but given that the Greeks weren’t shy about nudity, I’d think that it was possible that they might have made the horse anatomically correct. Then, of course there’s the question: Did they build it as a stallion, mare, or gelding?
Any theories on this out there?
The story of the Trojan Horse was told to us by Homer. In the story, the same guy explained that the war started when a goddess (Aphrodite) won a beauty contest judged by Paris, son of the King of Troy. As a reward, Aphrodite gave Paris the “most beautiful woman in the world” - Helen. Trouble was, she was already married to this Greek guy, who wasn’t best pleased etc. etc. Hence the war.
Homer told us lots of things –
“If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing!”,
“It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen” and
“Everything looks bad if you remember it”, to name but three.
But he never told us whether it was a boy horse or a girl horse. Doh!
I nominate this as the most ridiculous question I’ve read in GQ. Of COUSE it was anatomically correct, why else would it be a TROJAN?
Now I’m wondering exactly how the soldiers exited the horse…
I’m guessing the world’s first water slide.
Thanks for setting me straight. I always thought the reference was to Trojan whores.
Dang! I was gonna make that trojan crack!
Seriously, I imagine they wouldn’t have bothered to include genitalia. It’d be too much of a bother. I mean, doesn’t the story go that the greeks built it overnight from the hulls of their own ships? Probably wouldn’t have had the time anyway. Besides, it’s a war machine, even if it’s supposed to look like art.
Also, if they had made it a stallion, I imagine they would have included a big ass condom to go with it. 
“Don’t forget your rubber!” ~Charles Goodyear
The story of the Trojan Horse actually comes from Book II of Virgil’s The Aeneid. Homer only touches upon it in The Odyssey.
Thanks for that, except that 1. The Odyssey came first, 2. The Aeneid doesn’t really describe the horse either, 3. Couldn’t think of a joke about Virgil.
There are literary references and paintings of the Trojan Horse pre-Virgil, and, as noted, it is mentioned in The Odyssey.
One intriguing possibility, mentioned previously on the SDMB, and in the book and PBS TV series In Search of the Trojan War, is that the story of the Trojan Horse actually recalls an early episode of siege machinery, with the Horse actually being a siege tower that was rolled toward Troy to attck the walls. Neat idea. The TV series **The Odyssey[/V] showed the horse as built from the hulls of some of the Greek ships, which wouldn’t have been incompatible with the idea of a siege tower. In either case, showing the horse with male equipment wouldn’t have been necessary. On the other hand, considering that these were battle-hardened soldiers building this, it’s not unlikely that they lavished extra care on outsized male parts. Just for the record, I don’t know of any representation, ancient or modern, that shows marked sexual parts on the Horse.
Cassandra lost a fair bit credibility on this point.
Well, it would allow you to fit one more soldier inside…
The horse was just nuts about him.