If the Trojan war was true and also the trojan horse, how did the greeks manage to build it with no one noticing them?

by Persephona7
XenophonTheAthenian

What makes you think the Trojan War or the Horse are real? While the actual site of Troy VIIA was destroyed in some human conflagration, there is no evidence to suggest a ten year war between some coalition of Achaeans and the Trojans and their allies, extending all the way out to Ethiopia. The Homeric Poems are a product of an oral tradition first written down in the late Dark Age but originating in many aspects from long before Troy VIIA even as far back as a root Into-European epic tradition. As for the Horse, this is the stuff of epic fantasy. Nineteenth century scholars sought to find some glimmer of reality in the tradition of the Horse, from earthquake metaphors for hazy descriptions of siege engines. No serious scholar of any note remotely accepts any of these suggestions