The Trojan horse, full of Greek warriors.
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The tale is that the Greeks, having failed to capture walled Troy, left a wooden horse full of soldiers outside the city, and the Trojans brought it inside. The Greeks came out at night, opened the city gates, and the Greek army poured in and took the city.
Odysseus was a leader of the Greek army that conquered Troy. It was his idea to create the gift known as the Trojan Horse as a means of getting a force of armed men inside the city gates.
The legend is that they took it inside their city, not knowing there were Greek warriors inside it, and that night they opened the gates to let in the Greek armies. Since then 'trojan horse' is an expression for sneaking in a disruptive element, as in computing.
The Greeks left a huge hollowed wooden horse as an offering to the Gods and pretend to leave Troy. The Trojans took the horse in the city but it was full inside with hidden Greeks. The following night, when everyone were asleep, the Greeks got out from the horse and open the gates( we don't have the name of the Greek(s) that actually opened the gate).
Paris, prince of Troy takes Helen, queen of Sparta to Troy. Menelaus, king of Sparta gets mad and gets his brother Agamemnon to help him fight Troy. Greece fights Troy for ten years. In that time many are killed, including Hector, Achilles, and many others. Then the Greeks get fed up and pretend to quit and leave the infamous wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. The Trojans take it inside the city and the city is destroyed overnight.