TROY: what might have really happened?

Question

I read a interesting theory of what TROY really might have been.

Wanted to see what yaul think.

Do not base this on the movie but the story over all.

First of all the only thing in "The Illiad" that even links the greeks is that Homer was a greek sailor (well that doesnt mean much).

This is the story as i read it, as to what might have really happened.


Back in about 1100 BC (the date of TROY) sometime before that there was a group called the Celtics (hince names like the Celts), they had come out of the middle east and Africa as the Egyptian empire fell apart. Rome was just forming its empire but barely existed.

the Celtics moved into Europe and would live all over untill the Roman Empire pushed them north into Scandanavia and other non ruled nations.

The bronze age came about because of them, and at one point they found out that Tin would make their bronze items even better.

In a land called TROAD (hince troy) there were a large amount of tin mines. The

however the Trojans (or whatever they were called in this case) were unwilling to share the mines.

Now i dont know about Paris, and Hektor, Achelis, and Helena or if they were real.

Well when the Troads refused to help, the Celtics decided to take the mines by force.

They had no direct army, so they put together a very large mercenery fleet.

Now here are a couple of interesting facts.

On the coast of spain is a city today that in english means Ithica (the city where Oddesius launched the large fleet)

And it is believed that from Ithica they moved NW to what is now the SE coast of England.


Now there is nothing left in England to support this (the city is gone). But there are things in history that point to this war.

The story goes on to talk about how the Oddesy was in fact in the atlantic and not the Med

As for the Oddessy,

the story i read pointed out some interesting things.


I cant rememeber all the locations but the story points out what islands were which in the book.

To explain the Cyclops they said they found the answer in the Canary islands. It is said that there are people there, that are born with 1 eye (not in the center of the head) but this would account for the legend.

To explain where the fleet finally tried to land and got hit by a huge storm and was wiped out,, they said this was pretty easy

Along the coast of Cuba is a very rocky shore, and extreme hurricanes have been known to hit there.
They believe the fleet was hit by a hurricane.

On cuba there fore was the queen Oddisius seduced and then got a new fleet and sailed for home.

Answer 1

Troy is an historical fact - the site was discovered by a German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. There are many layers of settlement on the site starting as early as 3000BC and ending with the Roman city of Ilium which was built on the site in the 1st century BC - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy for a lot more detail including the various settlement layers and a plan of the area. The theory that it was elsewhere has been put forward, but has not been accepted by the majority of scholars. The people known as 'Celts' or Keltoi in Greek did not appear in the historic record until around 500BC when a Greek historian reports them in south-west Germany. It is true that peoples of a Celtic background were known in Anatolia, now part of modern Turkey. They are the Galatians to whom St. Paul addressed an epistle.

Answer 2

WOW nice theory very interesteting.But there is practicly no way of knowing what might have happened. I mean TROY was just a legend and it was found. But the city of ATLANTIS is a legend of a super civilization before the egyptions and long before the Romans and the Mesopotanians written by HOMER. Its just that it is possible since Cuba was inhabitad with natives back then which later the spanish invaded. And HOMER explains of a pretty long journey of the Mediterrnean which is too long it seems because an average journey from troy to greece only takes a few days or weeks at tops and here of a few months.