Fact-check: “The Trojan Horse story isn't even in Homer's original text of The Odyssey.”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
The Odyssey does reference the Trojan Horse — multiple times, across at least Books 4, 8, and 11 — so the claim that it isn't 'even' there is contradicted by the primary text itself. What IS true is that Homer gives only brief allusions, not the full dramatic narrative most people picture: details like Sinon's deception, Laocoon's warning, and the Trojans debating whether to destroy the horse are absent from the Odyssey and come primarily from Virgil's Aeneid, written seven centuries later. The…
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