Do you believe the Battle of Troy and/or the Trojan Horse?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Difficult question!
Let’s start from the beginning! The Greek myth of Troy is one of the most ancient and most powerful of Greece! The Greeks describe a Greek civil war. The Greek poet Homer describes how a coalition of Greek tribes called the Danaoi (or Achaeans), attacked another Greek tribe, the Trojans!
In the myth everything is Greek. The city, the Gods, the royal families and so on! (According to Greek myths the Trojans originate from the Greek island of Samothrace and from Attica). We can not possible tell if the myth is true! And that is because we are not sure were the mythical Troy is!!
We are not even sure if the war took place! The doubts mainly originate from the archaeological evidence from the site of Troy! The ruins we have are very inaccurate! There isn’t actually a city!!! We have found only a fortified citadel!!! (Some even say that it is not a citadel). Where is the city? Where are the Great walls that protect the city? The German archaeologist who had excavated in the last years the area claims that he had found evidence of a lower city but it is not yet proved!
Some archaeologists and historians maintain that none of the events in Homer's works are historical. Others accept that there may be a foundation of historical events in the Homeric stories, but say that in the absence of independent evidence it is not possible to separate fact from myth in the stories.
In recent years scholars have suggested that the Homeric stories represented a synthesis of many old Greek stories of various Bronze Age sieges and expeditions, fused together in the Greek memory during the "dark ages" which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. In this view, no historical city of Troy existed anywhere: the name derives from a people called the Troies, who probably lived in central Greece. The identification of the hill at Hissarlik as Troy is, in this view, a late development, following the Greek colonization of Asia Minor in the 8th century BC.
About the Trojan horse we can not also tell!! It was probably a war machine of some kind or just a part of the myth!
To summarize up! Trojan War is a Greek Myth about a war between Greeks that is either based on a historical event or it is pure fiction!
I personally believe that there is some truth behind it!

Answer 3

They city of troy exists. It is located on the the western coast of Turkey, just a little south of the bosphorus. It is open to the public. It is actually close to a dozen cities, one built upon the ruins of the previous.

The trojan war is believed to have taken place at what is known as Troy 7 (the 7th city of troy). Parts of it stil remain, but not much, but you can still see a section of the outerwall and the ruins of some buildings.

No one knows if it actually took place, but it si known that Troy 7 was destroyed in a cataclism that included massive fires and the damage is consistant with a city that was sacked.

So while there is no conclusive proof of the trojan war, there is quite a bit of evidence.

If you are ever in Turkey, the Archeological museum in istanbul has an entire floor dedicated to troy and has exhibits on each period of the city and how it ended.

Answer 4

There is no evidence that the Trojan War ever happened. Yes, the ruins of different cities have been found on the site where Troy supposedly existed.

Answer 5

Personally, I believe that the battle for Troy (Ilios) Did take place, and there is archaeological evidence to suggest that it was rebuilt time and time again. However, there is an literary theory that postulates that the Iliad is not just a telling of the fall of Troy, but also an astronomy primer used, with the Aenid and the Odyssey, to teach navigators - in a time before the printing press and text books. Take it for what you think it is worth.

Answer 6

It hurts me to say NO ! In the different levels (strata) of dwellings that archeologists unearth, they find things, mainly pottery, that make it possible to date the stratum. When the level of Troy that looks like the Homeran one was destroyed, the Greek faced an invasion from the north and were therefore unable to make a largescale campaign overseas.

Answer 7

Yes. Ruins found proved that Troy really existed.

Answer 8

The battle and war, yes. There is excellent historical and archaeological evidence to support it. The "horse" is probably a literary invention but you never know.

Answer 9

Yes, the war may have been true but because it was under fiction some parts of the story may have been distorted and some spices were added to fit the writers taste..

Answer 10

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Answer 11

What does 'belief' have to do with Homer's the Odyssey and the Illiad, they're myths, most likely based on real events.