Wooden Horse Gallery

The Iliad: The Wooden Horse dragged within the Walls (engraving)

6026361 The Iliad: The Wooden Horse dragged within the Walls (engraving) by Jacomb-Hood, George Percy (1857-1930); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Wooden Horse dragged within the Walls. Illustration for The Boy's Iliad by Walter Copland Perry with illustrations by Jacomb Hood (Macmillan, 1902).); © Look and Learn

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Le Jeu de Bague Nuptiale. L'Allemande... et d'une !... l'Anglaise

2966870 Le Jeu de Bague Nuptiale. L'Allemande... et d'une !... l'Anglaise... et de deux !... partie perdue pour vous, monseigneur, pub. 1833 (coloured engraving) by Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47); Private Collection; (add.info.: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754 - 1838);); The Stapleton Collection; French, out of copyright

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Trojan horse, computer artwork

Trojan horse. Conceptual computer artwork of a wooden horse on wheels entering through city gates made from computer parts. This could represent a type of malicious computer program known as a trojan. A trojan is a destructive program disguised as a benign application. It can cause major problems such as deletion of data but, unlike a computer virus, is unable to replicate. Ther term comes from a story in Homer's Iliad where a giant wooden horse was given to the Trojans as a peace offering by the Greeks. The horse's hollow interior contained Greek soldiers who opened the city gates and allowed the Greeks to take Troy

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